Wittgenstein and MacIntyre

the unconscious as "façon de parler"

pp. 132-136

in: David L. Smith, Freud's philosophy of the unconscious, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

Wittgenstein was one of the first philosophers to scrutinize psychoanalysis seriously. He apparently began reading Freud around 1919 (McGuiness, 1981; Monk, 1990) and later incorporated remarks on Freud in his teaching. Until very recently, philosophical consideration of Freud's work was, at least within the analytical tradition, dominated by Wittgenstein's thinking¹⁴³.