Part of the conference The Image and Reality of the Child. Lee Roloff opens the conference with a dramatic celebration of “play” as a vital aspect of being.
Lee Roloff, PhD was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. There he taught performance art, archetypal and psychological approaches to literature, literature in the therapeutic setting, and seminars in creativity, creative imagination, and the performance of psyche in culture. He retired from academia in 1991 after forty years of teaching. He is a founding member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and has written and taught in the field of psychology and literature, is a published poet, and is coauthor, with John Dotson, of Falling into Poetic Space: The Biopoetic Impulse.