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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2010  
         
  Article:   THE HISTORICAL SPECULATIONS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: MYSTIFICATION OR GRAMMATICAL CLARIFICATION? / LES SPÉCULATIONS HISTORIQUES EN PSYCHANALYSE : MYSTIFICATION OU CLARIFICATION GRAMMATICALE?.

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  Abstract:  The main goal of this paper is to criticize Wittgenstein’s reading of Freudian psychoanalysis. According to Wittgenstein, the very notion of “unconscious” can only make sense considered from a grammatical standpoint. The unconscious is not an empirical feature of our mind but a kind of language game. On the basis of a thorough study of Freud’s book on Moses, this paper argues that psychoanalysis relies on a legitimate alternative to Wittgenstein’s conception of mind and culture. For psychoanalysis, mind and culture would need to be understood as essentially diachronic, rather than as language games.

Keywords: Wittgenstein, Freud, History, Unconscious, Narrative, Grammar 

 
         
     
         
         
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