Wittgensteins Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language... - 9781032568676

Wittgensteins Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language GamesAuthor(s): Franoise Davoine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032568676, 978-1032568676\nSynopsis\nWittgensteins Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Franoise Davoine and Davoines patients with extreme lived experience. \n\nThis book begins with Davoines seminar at the cole des Hautes tudes 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 Freuds 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.