Locomotility and Play

Exertion is proof of the autonomy of Locomotility.  Usually integrated into a behavioral sequence that begins with some representation, and ends in some course of action, in this moment, Locomotility is spontaneously initiated, and is independent of the activity that it is intended to enhance.  Concepts like impulse and drive, which connote motion, suppress this spontaneity, typically by absorbing it into a preceding representation that is equated with some necessary organic process.  For example, Hunger is usually conceived as Vegetative need that automatically sets in motion the search for food, a concept that obscures the distictions between an empty stomach, hunger pangs that signal a problem, and the locomotility that goes in search of a solution.  Now, Play can be conceived as Locomotility for its own sake, i. e.  as enjoyment of the capacity of spontaneous motion.  Accordingly, Marcuse's concept of a "play-impulse", which, in his terminology, connotes an origin that precedes the Locomotility that constitutes Play, is an example of the suppression of Locomotility that is entailed in the concept of the Psyche that he inherits from Freud.