The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein on Language as Bewitchment & Clarity

  • Zachary Tavlin University of Washington

Abstract


John M. Heaton’s The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein on Language as Bewitchment & Clarity follows a number of other publications by the author on Wittgenstein and psychoanalysis, including The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein’s Therapeutic Method for Psychotherapy (2010). His latest book continues a project that attempts to inject a measure of clarity into the discourse on psychotherapeutic praxis by moving away from schematic approaches that rely upon “picture-driven theorising which takes ‘the mind’ to refer to some sort of substance with an innate structure” (p. xii).  

References

Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical investigations. New York, NY: Macmillan.

Von Wright, G. H., & Nyman, H. (1980). Culture and value. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Published
01-Jun-2014
How to Cite
Tavlin, Z. (2014). The Talking Cure: Wittgenstein on Language as Bewitchment & Clarity. Language and Psychoanalysis, 3(1), 66-69. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2014.004
Section
Book Reviews