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Updated: May 20, 2025
Mimicry of hunting, i.e., playing with a living or dead prey: the dog and cat following moving objects, a ball, feather, etc. Mimic battles, teasing and fighting without anger. Doll-play is universal in mankind, whether civilized or savage. Groos believes he has found its equivalent in certain animals.
It was a happy thought to illustrate his subject from coins, rather than from disputed and mutilated fragments; and he worked into it his revised theory of the origin of art not Schiller's nor Herbert Spencer's, and yet akin to theirs of the "Spieltrieb," involving the notion of doll-play; man as a child, re-creating himself, in a double sense; imitating the creation of the world and really creating a sort of secondary life in his art, to play with, or to worship.
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