Psychoanalytic considerations on hide-and-seek games: from Puti to Peekaboo. Psychoanalysis has much discussed children games, but has seldom related the discoveries about hiding and seeking games, carried by Freud in the 1920's, with the theory that all games represent the desire to be an adult. By studying the game of hide-and-seek, the present work aims at revealing how repetition finds its own place in the psychoanalytical theory of play and becomes a much more important operator than the desire a child holds of being an adult, as proposed by Freud.
Hiding and seeking games; peekaboo; fantasy; repetition; psychoanalysis