A Meditation on ‘R’ in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Complex Sign ‘aRb’

Richard Swann

A Meditation on ‘R’ in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Complex Sign ‘aRb’

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Keywords:

Wittgenstein, Ricoeur, Existential-phenomenological, aspect-seeing, change, Borderline Personality Disorder, failure.

Abstract

Wittgenstein offers insights into the fluidity of relationships between ideas that we have of the world that appear to be immutable. These insights hint at problematics posed by mental health diagnoses that may fix ideas about the Being of a client in both client and therapist. The practice of existential phenomenology offers a method of unfixing the fixed.