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a.To get to the idea of playing it is helpful to think of the preoccupation which characterizes the playing of a young child. The content does not matter. What matters is the near-withdrawal state, akin to the concentration of older children and adults. The playing child inhabits an area that cannot be easily left, nor can it easily admit intrusions.
b.This area of playing is not inner psychic reality. It is outside the individual, but it is not the external world.