When he was five years old, Moreno told some other children, 'I am God and you are my angels', in pursuance of which he leapt from a pile of furniture and broke his arm. He continued this game by organizing 'kindergarten on a cosmic scale, a revolution among children'.

Psychodrama is a system of psychodynamics described in terms of spontaneity, 'creative revolution', 'warming up process', 'matrix of all identity', 'category of the moment' and 'cultural conserve'. Definitions of these concepts are elastic, and any resemblance they may have to other psychologies is purely accidental. Says Moreno: 'the distinction between conscious and unconscious has no place in a psychology of creative art—the unconscious is a reservoir which is continually filled and emptied by the "creator individual"'. 'Spontaneity', ill defined, is well illustrated by Moreno's prose style. Bizarre neologisms and simple Latin tags abound, as though