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Wittgenstein on Freud Reexamined: Psychoanalytic Treatments as Language-Games
Series: - Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume: 33
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Wittgenstein on Freud Reexamined, psychoanalytical therapy is interpreted with the Wittgensteinian term language-game. Both terms are embedded in their different practical horizons of use, rich in content, and share a familiar context of everyday language. This book is an extensive and detailed investigation of the primary sources. An original perspective on psychoanalytical therapy emerges from rereading Freud and Wittgenstein through the primacy of language in their work. The possibility of significantly expanding the use of language-games results from a careful examination of the beginnings of psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein’s ambivalent attitude toward psychoanalysis appears in a new light.
Józef Bremer, Ph.D. (1996), Munich School of Philosophy, is Professor of Philosophy at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. He has published monographs and many articles on Ludwig Wittgenstein and cognitive science, including 'Wittgenstein's Tractatus as Poetic Philosophy and Philosophical Poetics' (in: Poetics Today, 2021).
This book would be of interest for: a) students of philosophy, psychology, history of psychoanalysis and cultural studies, b) for practitioners providing psychoanalytical therapy according to classical methods, for specialists inquiring about philosophical perspectives on psychoanalytic practice and c) for researches interested in expanding Wittgenstein's application of language-game in different cultural areas.