Publication details
"Role-playing" hry v kontextu analytické psychologie
| Title in English | The role-playing games in context of analytical psychology |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Československá psychologie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | role-playing; analytical psychology; imagination; complex |
| Description | RPG are based on deep connection between the player and the character (the role) what he plays. The players tend to hold similar psychological types (usually introverted intelectual men about 20 years old). On basis of the grounded theory and analytical psychology there were carried out and analyzed 6 interviews in the research. Two main findings emerged: firstly, the player identifies himself with his character on the symbolic basis. The character is percieved as a part of player`s personality and simultaneously as something overlapping him. The relation between them is partially driven by unconsciousness - toward indirectness, dynamics of the game and open future. Secondly, two types of imagination were identified. In the game itself shared, concrete and narrative fantasies dominated while in out-game lone imagination the fantasies were object-related and had stellate organization. Both findings imply the simillarities between the character (role) and imaginative-based complex. |
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