the playful, and gambling Lúdica y Ludopatía

Abstract

In a writing of a recent publishing (See, An Approach to the Concept of Playfulness, Kinesis Magazine No. 22) attempts to characterize the Playful, endowing it with a more transcendental human sense that goes beyond the common idea of ​​defining it as a simple game. When advancing in the reflection on the subject, now appears the need to differentiate Ludic of Ludopatía., Differentiation on which this work deals. In the aforementioned publication, it is proposed that the Playful be conceived, in essence, as a dimension of human development as important as cognitive, sexual and communicative, among others. In addition, it is stated that Playful refers to the need that every person has to feel pleasant emotions associated with vertigo, uncertainty, distraction, surprise or joyful contemplation.