Abstract

SOUSA, Rui Bragado; GALUCH, Maria Terezinha Bellanda  and  BISCONCIM, Letícia Toniete Izeppe. Mimesis and playfulness in Walter Benjamin and Roger Caillois: playing and gaming in the process of child development. Ensino em Re-Vista [online]. 2023, vol.30, e026.  Epub Dec 22, 2023. ISSN 1983-1730.  https://doi.org/10.14393/er-v30a2023-26.

The article is concerned with the centeredness of childhood in Benjamin's thought, whose objective categories are the playfulness, the language and the mimesis, to deprehend from them formative possibilities for the early childhood education. For Benjamin, the mimetic mediation in the child formation occurs in the ontogenetic development (of the individual, in socialization and in the game), and in the phylogenetic development (of the species, of humanity, in the language and the culture). Approaching Caillois' games sociology, there is an assertive connection between mimesis and playfulness and between the image and imagination. Through comparative analysis, it is argued that the mimetic faculty related to playful socialization can be a device for the child's psychic constitution and a mechanism of disruption in relation to the adequacy of technical development.

Keywords : Critical Theory of Society; Early Childhood Education; Mimesis; Playfulness.

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