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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.
List of 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
About the author
Françoise Davoine is a psychoanalyst based in France. She is a former professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she and Jean-Max Gaudillière conducted a weekly seminar on Madness and the Social Link for 40 years. She presents internationally and is the author of many books and articles.
Summary
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.
