Full Description
Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine and Davoine's patients with extreme lived experience.
This book begins with Davoine's seminar at the École des Hautes Études 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 the book 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 and to academics and students engaged in psychoanalytic studies, philosophy and trauma-related studies.
Contents
Preface to the Second French Edition
Chapter 1 Who Is He?
Chapter 2 The Uncanny
Chapter 3 Language on Holiday
Chapter 4 Transference
Chapter 5 Do You Believe in Psychoanalysis?
Chapter 6 An Ostensive Definition
Chapter 7 Host and Visitor
Chapter 8 When the Tool with the Name "N" is Broken
Chapter 9 Folee-ah-deeoo
Chapter 10 Excalibur
Chapter 11 Give Away
Chapter 12 Witchcraft
Chapter 13 The Cosmos Becomes Uncertain
Chapter 14 The Fly-Bottle
Chapter 15 The Girl
Chapter 16 The "Far Away" Look
Chapter 17 19 Berggasse
Chapter 18 Ready-Mades
Chapter 19 The Philosopher Comes Back
Chapter 20 Beetles
Chapter 21 The Deaf-Mutes
Chapter 22 The Private Life of Dogs
Chapter 23 The Machine
Chapter 24 The Window
Chapter 25 The Puppets
Chapter 26 The Dame Jeanne
Chapter 27 The Little Boy
Postfaces
Notes
