Abstract

Jacques Lacan devoted one of the sessions of his important Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s classic work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Despite Lacan’s and Wittgenstein’s huge influence across academic disciplines (and the analytic–continental divide in philosophy), there has been no scholarly attempt to examine Lacan’s claims concerning Wittgenstein in this seminar. This paper sets out to redress this gap in the literature. Specifically, we look at the context of the engagement; Lacan’s reconstruction of Wittgenstein’s arguments; their differing conceptions of truth, knowledge and the subject; and the issue of Wittgenstein’s seemingly “psychotic” position.

Details

Title
Wittgenstein’s Unglauben: Jacques Lacan and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Author
Turner, Kirk 1 ; Sharpe, Matthew 1 

 Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia (GRID:grid.1021.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 0526 7079) 
Pages
201-217
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Sep 2022
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN
10880763
e-ISSN
15433390
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2718023348
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.