Trazos sobre la singularidad de la experiencia de juego

Abstract

Lines on the singularity of the experience of game playing. In this paper tools from psychoanalysis and anthropology are used to analyze the experience of game playing in the study of a character in Stefan Zweig’s novel One day in the life of a woman. Inspired by Roland Barthes, the author tries to approach the reflection Zweig offers on playing through the story narrated by one of the central figures of the novel. The analysis shows that the individual experience of game playing is inscribed within a framework formed by social rules which break in precisely while the character experiences the tension between the acceptance/violation of the conventions of the game imposed from the outside.