Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Wittgenstein, on “Language-Games” and Ethics

In this chapter, I propose to take seriously the comparison betweenFreudian psychoanalysis and Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy. Philosophyand psychoanalysis have in common two facts: they are activities that have to dowith the analysis of language, and they have an ethical goal. Both, in fact, meanto liberate the human body, and to make it able to move freely. The fundamentalconcept that allows this comparison is that of “surveyable representation” ( übersichtlicheDarstellung). From this point of view, the main concern of Wittgensteinianphilosophy is ethics.