Kazimier Dabrowski's evolutionary-developmental theory of positive disintegration is used as a pretext for discussing the relationship between play and friendship. Within the context of multilevelness of emotional and instinctive functions, it is proposed that the immutability of gamesmanship is transformed through the fidelity of friendship into play whose function is nothing less than to understand the totality of meaning.
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