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Wittgenstein's Folly by Françoise Davoine; translation, introduction, and notes by William J. Hurst is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wittgenstein's Folly about?

Wittgenstein's Folly is a translation of Franoise Davoine's La Folie Wittgenstein. "Folly" has many meanings, referring to the "madness" of the fool, as well as to the madness of what we call the "mentally ill." "Folly" is linked with the fools of medieval plays, with the fools of Renaissance satires, and with the folly that speaks as a woman in Erasmus's Praise of Folly. In this book by Francoise Davoine, "folly" often refers to the madness of those isolated by historical catastrophes that have not been processed across generations, and which can only be studied by exploring the fields of madness, by finding ways to hear Folly herself speaking. The title does not refer specifically to the madness or folly of Wittgenstein himself. Wittgenstein's Folly is about psychoanalytic experience, and specifically about the madness or folly that comes to reside, in a way, in what Franoise Davoine refers to as a "psychotic transference." Franoise Davoine is a psychoanalyst trained in the 1970s at Lacan's cole freudienne de Paris. With advanced degrees in the Classics and in French Literature, she obtained a doctorate in sociology at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales (School for Ad

Author

Françoise Davoine; translation, introduction, and notes by William J. Hurst

Publisher

YBK Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936411160

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Social_sciences