About the uncalculated effects on established discourses: the case of L. Wittgenstein.

Abstract

In this work, framed in the research project “Positions of psychosis in social ground: symptoms, discourses, bonds” (UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina) we will present the case o “Ludwig Wittgenstein”, considered one of the most important philosophers of the XXI century

Methodologically, we build the case starting from the reading of his journals, letters and published works, adding a series of biographies. On one hand, we get to know how his work frames closely with the answers found by him to treat the melancholic feeling of life that he experienced.. Different moments of his works articulate ways of taking a position in life and make the overwhelming dilemma bearable: to be a genius or to be a scum. In that fight with his “inner demons”, he searched to isolate from everyone, being the bond with God the only one that he always kept.

On the other hand we set the conditions to explain the subversive impact on universitary discourse, in spite of Wittgenstein's own rejection of it. We develop this as an uncalculated effect that some psychotic positions have. We sustain, as an hypothesis, that the effectiveness of his solutions, with which he made life bearable, corresponds with the move from one initial asceticism position to a position coping with desire, including structure inconsistency. . His impact on universitary discourse was necessary, although not enough to relieve his pain.