The Pleasure Principle: The Benefits of Play, Leisure, and Recreation.

The Pleasure Principle : The Benefits of Play , Leisure , and Recreation

Outline

Thesis Statement : Man must play but it has to be moderated

Play defined

Costs and Benefits of Play

Functions of Play

Pleasure Principle as defined by Freud

Pleasure Principle , Reality Principle and Sublimation

Conscious and Unconscious State

Dreams , Parapraxes , Jokes

Erotogenic Zones

Pleasure Principle and Play as Applied today

Introduction

In his book , The Evolution of Leisure , Geoffrey Godbey (1988 described the need of man as follows

The surest sign of mature adulthood- and

this will surprise many adults- may be the ability to be as a child to be able , as a child , to play . That is not a new discovery but rather a rediscovery . A century of observation and reflection has provided us with mounting evidence of what people through all time have always known . Man must play

This discusses play as a whole . It 's costs and benefits , the way it was hypothesized in this century , and how Man must utilize playtime for the betterment of today 's society

Play Defined

Play is difficult to define . There is not even an agreement that play is a distinct category of behavior , so some prefer to use the adverb playful ' to describe a way of behavior rather than a type of behavior which is recognizably play . One advantage of using the adverb playful ' is that we are not forced into quite arbitrary distinctions between work and play (Godbey , 1988

Play 's Costs and Benefits

Geoffrey Godbey , in...