202101251947 Language Game, is similar to psychodrama of playing a role

# 202101251947 Language Game, is similar to psychodrama of playing a role Note: **I am always interacting with someone based on a context. This reminded me of language game. What game, what context am I playing, what role am i playing with that other person?** #wittgenstein [[🏠 030 Language and Psychology]][[# 020.400 Psychodrama]] Source: - "When an individual comes into contact with others, it always happens through a role that has been adapted to that situation." - Page 207 - Fundamental of Psychodrama, Falko Von Ameln I copied the whole passage - **Role Behavior as Interaction** The concept of role is not an individualistic, but a fundamentally social concept. Roles are the units of analysis of an interconnected interaction context. When an individual comes into contact with others, it always happens through a role that has been adapted to that situation. The counterpart must then take on a complementary role so that a meaningful interaction can come about. A person at a ticket counter acts as a customer buying a ticket, while the person behind the counter takes on the role of the seller. If one of the participants in this structure were to assume a non-complementary role such as a doctor, it would give rise to some confusion as the traveler does not need a blood pressure measurement, but a ticket. On the other hand, a doctor would certainly be irritated if his patient demanded a train timetable instead of behaving as a patient. Corresponding pairings of roles and complementary roles can be found in a wide variety of contexts: Mother–child, Teacher–student, Manager–subordinate, Perpetrator–victim, Superior–inferior, etc. Moreno defines role as “the functioning form the individual assumes in \[...\] a specific situation in which other persons or objects are involved” (Moreno, 1961, p. 519). Adequate social behavior thus requires the knowledge and mastery of the relevant roles and complementary roles: “Every individual, just as he is the focus of numerous attractions and repulsions appears, also, as the focus of numerous rôles which are related to the rôles of other individuals. Every individual, just as he has at all times a set of friends and a set of enemies, also has a range of rôles and faces, a range of counter-rôles” (Moreno, 1940, p. 20).