Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis

Editor of the section “Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis”: Hannes Nykänen

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    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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    Image and Imagination in Wittgenstein and Freud

    Carlo Sini

     

    The Speaking Lion

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    Image and Imagination in Wittgenstein and Freud

  • Carlo Sini
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    In this text I shall develop a parallel reading of Wittgenstein’s …
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    The Speaking Lion

  • Mladen Dolar
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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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    Philosophy As Therapy
    On Some Analogies Between Wittgenstein and Freud

  • Davide Sparti
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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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    Freud’s Dangerous Pupil

  • Hannes Nykänen
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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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    A Critique of the Signifying Reason.
    Is Wittgenstein’s a Perspicuous Representation
    of Freud’s thought?

  • Sergio Benvenuto
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    1/12/2014

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    Touchy Subjects: Wittgenstein’s ‘Freudianism’ and the Moral Dynamics of Repression

  • Joel Backström
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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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    Back to the Future of Illusion
    Where Freud and Wittgenstein meet without knowing it

  • Robert Pfaller
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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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    Telling the Truth about Truth.
    The Philosopher’s Frame and the Analyst’s Speech

  • Federico Leoni
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    In this text, the author comments on Lacan’s statement about the impossibility of “telling the truth about the truth” (Seminar VII), together with Wittgenstein’s idea that we cannot …
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    Published by I.S.A.P. - ISSN 2284-1059
    Scientific Journal in the List 11 by the ANVUR (Italian Agency for Evaluation of the University System and Research)