Symbols
Otter, Seaweed, Branch, River, Ball
Keywords
Ease: going with the flow, getting around obstacles, do something with ease or excel so much it looks or becomes easy, effortless, taking it easy, laziness, nonchalance
Disruption: change, creativity, movement, moving things around, transformation, reversal, discovery, diversion, randomness, risk, gambling, lack of control
Enjoyment: possibilities, freedom, taking life as a game, play, fun, enjoyment, improvisation
Examples
Movie Clips & Videos:
Rubik's Cube, Basketball – The Pursuit of Happiness,
Creative Inspiration in the Pool - Tick Tick... Boom!
Creative Inspiration in the Pool - Tick Tick... Boom!
"You are the game-playing, fun-having creatures, you are the otters of the universe." – Richard Bach
“The symbol of a ball would represent more the capacity of the Self to effect movement out of itself... by its own inner life-impulse it moves through all the vicissitudes and frictions and difficulties of the material world. Therefore it stands for this very factor in the unconscious psyche , which Jung has discovered, namely that the unconscious... has a capacity for spontaneous movement, which in many philosophies and religious systems is otherwise only attributed to the Divinity, the first mover.”
– M.L. Von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 79
Podcasts:
Play Mountain - Noguchi's playground (99% Invisible),
Learn To Pivot with a Personal Project (Creative Pep Talk),
Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards (This Jungian Life)
Play Mountain - Noguchi's playground (99% Invisible),
Learn To Pivot with a Personal Project (Creative Pep Talk),
Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards (This Jungian Life)
Writings:
Animal Fable of the Beavers and the Otters for the Theme Work+Play,
Beavers, Otters, and the Symbolism of Work and Play,
Kids’ Video Game Obsession Is About Unmet Psychological Needs,
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: Reclaiming Our Human Dignity,
Having Fun is a Virtue, Not a Guilty Pleasure,
Trying Not To Try: The Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei,
The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
Play, Game, Gamification, Recreation, Leisure, Amusement, Fun,
Enjoyment, Philosophy of Happiness, Potential, Critique of Work,
Moving the Goalposts, Nirvana Fallacy, Liminoid Experiences,
Flow (Psychology), Creative Work, Juggler, Collaboration
Animal Fable of the Beavers and the Otters for the Theme Work+Play,
Beavers, Otters, and the Symbolism of Work and Play,
Kids’ Video Game Obsession Is About Unmet Psychological Needs,
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: Reclaiming Our Human Dignity,
Having Fun is a Virtue, Not a Guilty Pleasure,
Trying Not To Try: The Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei,
The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process
Play, Game, Gamification, Recreation, Leisure, Amusement, Fun,
Enjoyment, Philosophy of Happiness, Potential, Critique of Work,
Moving the Goalposts, Nirvana Fallacy, Liminoid Experiences,
Flow (Psychology), Creative Work, Juggler, Collaboration
Sports such as football, games such as chess, recreations such as mountaineering can be hard and exacting and governed by rules and routines even more stringent than those of the work situation, but, since they are optional, they are part of an individual's freedom, of his growing self-mastery, even self-transcendence. Hence they are imbued more thoroughly with pleasure than those many types of industrial work in which men are alienated from the fruits and results of their labor. Leisure is potentially capable of releasing creative powers, individual or communal, either to criticize or buttress the dominant social structural values.
– Victor Turner, Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow , and Ritual
Tarot: The Magician
Mythology: Osiris Myth, Osiris, Meret, Felicitas, Uranus
Alchemy: Child's Play (Splendor Solis)
Mythology: Osiris Myth, Osiris, Meret, Felicitas, Uranus
Alchemy: Child's Play (Splendor Solis)
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