Edited by Albert J. Solnit, Donald J. Cohen, and Peter B. Neubauer. 321 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1993. $35. ISBN 0-300-05438-6.
As these psychoanalysts -- all from Boston, New Haven, and NewYork -- make clear, a child at play is a child, ironically,working quite hard -- anxious to explore and fathom the world,to test its possibilities, to give expression to all sorts ofwishes, worries, and fears, and not least, to connect with othersin various ways, for the good and sometimes the bad (in friendlygames or mean-spirited ones). As we grow older, we are apt toforgo play for work, for study (which is, itself, hard work),for a compliance with the constraints imposed on us, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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