Suggestion regarding Drama, Inner Creation, and Role-Taking (Empathy): I. Dramatic Arts and Dramatic Dreaming

Abstract

The paper is one of a series dealing with role-taking (empathy) and Rorschach movement responses. Previously, positive correlation was suggested between role-taking (empathy) in its intuitional sense, feeling, experience in its Erlebnis sense, and Rorschach movement response. In this paper the suggestion is expanded to include drama in the sense of the dramatic arts and what is defined as dramatic dreaming. The claim is made that a species incapable of Rorschachian inner creation is a species incapable of Stanislavskian acting, spectator empathy as defined by Langfeld and Jarrett, mimesis as discussed by Plato, make-believe (vision) as defined by Hoffer, and night dreaming as defined by Dement, Foulkes, and other researchers.