ABSTRACT

A central theme throughout Ludwig Wittgenstein's work is the view that everyday language is all right as it stands, provided people could just avoid being misled by linguistic forms when people philosophize and theorize. People are not as philosophers to engage in any theory-construction because philosophical investigations amount to conceptual investigations. According to Wittgenstein, the distinction between the method applied in science in contrast to the way philosophy is to be properly done is extremely important. Being able to do precisely this - in the philosophical conceptual analysis as well as in the psychoanalytical analysis - is part of being cured of the bad problems which troubles one in the conceptual (philosophical) confusion analogously to what is the case in the psychotic repression. The crucial difference seems to be that while Freud defends a kind of classical scientific rationalism people find that Wittgenstein clearly belongs to quite another order of thought.