Hannes Nykänen is adjunct professor (docent) at Åbo Akademi University. He teaches philosophy also at Helsinki University. He has published: The “I”, the “You” and the Soul: an Ethics of …
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Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis
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In this text I shall develop a parallel reading of Wittgenstein’s …
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Philosophical Investigations are centrally concerned with what could be termed, in psychoanalytic theory, the status of the ‘big Other’, …
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There are many ways of connecting Wittgenstein and Freud. The most obvious one being Wittgenstein’s remarks on Freud. In what follows I will take a less known path and …
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In this paper I want to show in what sense Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is an ethics and in what senses ethical and philosophical problems involve …
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Summary: This article discusses the ‘Freudian’ dimension in Wittgenstein’s thinking, related to his insight into the fundamental role of repression in structuring our difficulties …
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Apart from their apparent divergences or criticisms, Freud and Wittgenstein share at least one important point, which distinguishes them from most of …
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