**Title** 202011011552 How language is used is not neutral (like numbers), context is the focus. **Source** Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Date** 1 Nov 2020 **Tags** #language **How language is used is not neutral (like numbers), context is the focus.** **Reference** **It is not about having a clear, common language, and like a dictionary of language. Because how we use language is not neutral. There is no "dictionary". More of context?** "It seemed that if we had a clear symbolic notation, an ideal language then all philosophical problems and paradoxes would be solvable. We would just have to translate the apparent logical form of our ordinary language into the ideal one and we would be home (TLP, para. 4.1213). Genuine philosophy would be a critique of language (TLP, para. 4.0031). This ideal is similar to the psychoanalytic ideal of a perfect analysis. The analyst is neutral, detached from everything the patient presents verbally, non-verbally, consciously, unconsciously, and pre-consciously; he has been perfectly analysed. From this position the analyst listens and gives judicious and well- prepared interpretations based on psychoanalytic theory, which lead the patient from irrationality to reason. Unfortunately this ideal collapsed for both Wittgenstein and psychoanalysis. In psychoanalysis it became clear that how we decide what is neutral and unprejudiced is far from neutral both in theory and practice." page 28 [[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton]] Chapter 2. The paradox of despair Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Cross-links**