Open AccessWittgenstein on Freud’s Psychoanalysis
Author(s) -
Marco Antonio Franciotti
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
principia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1808-1525
pISSN - 1414-4247
DOI - 10.5007/1808-1711.2017v21n1p1
Subject(s) - psychic , psychoanalysis , criticism , philosophy , epistemology , psychology , literature , art , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
In this article, I endeavor to analyze Wittgenstein’s remarks on certain aspects of Freud’s theory in the hope to show that his criticism can be epistemologically fruitful to pinpoint some insurmountable theoretical difficulties in the metapsychological aspect of psychoanalysis, especially with regard to Freud’s insistent remarks that his deep psychology must be viewed as a scientific approach of psychic phenomena.