Wittgenstein’s Folly : Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games, Paperba...

by Françoise Davoine

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Wittgenstein’s Folly : Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games, Paperback by Davoine, Françoise, ISBN 1032568674, ISBN-13 9781032568676, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Franðcoise Davoine, and Davoine's patients with extreme lived experience. Th begins with Davoine's seminar at the âEcole des Hautes âEtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, which is attended by Wittgenstein. He then accompanies Davoine on visits to colleagues at the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts, in California, on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, and at Freud's house in Vienna. The dialogic form of th allows a performance centered on the psychotherapy of madness and trauma, in which Wittgenstein takes the floor. Davoine introduces us to a contemporary Feast of Fools and creates new language games with madness, enlarging the scope of psychoanalytic approaches to authors like Wittgenstein. The chapters of this book closely resemble short plays in which a conversation with living human beings or with characters from philosophy, literature, science, and the arts encounter one another and begin to open new ways of speaking that can render the "mad" more familiar and more manageable. Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games will be of great interest to psychoanalysts andto academics and students engaged in psychoanalytic stud

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781032568676
• Condition: Fine

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