![]() ![]() But he insists on more and more till the whole face is covered with eyes. Then he wants eyes, so mother draws a pair. She draws a circle for a face, and asks: 'What next?' He asks for the trunk, then trousers, feet, hands (but not arms). Johnny (2:3) asks mother to make a picture. Simon (2), asked where Simon is, points straight outwards. ![]() ![]() She proceeds to the bathroom and starts washing her face - the face in the mirror. (Eventually he told his grandmother that he was a boy.) Around this time, when rebuked for being a naughty boy, he didn't mind being called naughty, but protested he was not a boy. He waves his hands aimlessly - a gesture which seems to say he is at large. In the following examples, the lesson has still to be learned: the child is still (momentarily, anyhow) as faceless as at birth.Ĭarlos (1:7), at a party, is asked to locate various uncles and aunties. It takes years for the growing child to learn the Face Game thoroughly and to play it with conviction. This is the game which almost everyone plays (exceptions include infants, some retardates and schizophrenics, and Seers) in which the player pretends that he has a face where he has no face, that he is (at 0 inches) what he looks like (at, say 4 inches). (b) To be game-free is to cease playing the Face Game, and this (in religious contexts) is variously called Liberation, Self-realisation, Awakening, Enlightenment. (a) All the 'games people play' arise out of one basic game, which we call the Face Game. ![]()
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