Analytic philosophy, psycho-analytic theory and formalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4146161 |
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| Authors | Grahame Lock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-176 |
| Publication date | 1987-06-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue de Synthèse (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-1776 • E-ISSN: 1955-2343 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf03189053 |
| PMID | 11613798 |
| OpenAlex | W2075559869 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The present article treats a number of interweaving themes : the relation between philosophy and psycho-analytic theory ; Wittgenstein's critique of Freud ; post-Wittgensteinian philosophy of language in the English-speaking world, and its relation to the work of Frege ; and the parallel between this Anglophone philosophy of language on the one hand, and certain tendencies in French thought on the other.Many philosophers in Britain and America are interested in psychoanalysis.Indeed, if one may count Ludwig Wittgenstein as a philosopher of the Anglophone World', we might even say that the debate around questions of Freudian doctrine has taken a significant place in philosophical work there.Like Freud, Wittgenstein was a Viennese.He was, more or less inevitably, acquainted with Freud's writings ; and his sister Margarete was Freud's patient and his personal friend.Wittgenstein wrote little about Freud, but often spoke of his work in lectures or in conversations with friends and students.In the Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief he remarks on « something which Freud does and which seems to me immensely wrong ».The problem concerns the nature of psycho-analytic explanations.Freud, says Wittgenstein, suggests that behaviour can sometimes be explained by discovering, beneath the 1.Born and brought up in Austria, he worked almost exclusively in England.But cf
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| Highly cited | No |
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