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On "action language" in psychoanalysis

R C Calogeras, T M Alston

    The Psychoanalytic Quarterly
    |October 1, 1980
    PubMed
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    Action language, a potential new psychoanalytic metapsychology, risks becoming psychoanalytic behaviorism. Its adoption may undermine motivational aspects of psychoanalysis by treating patient conflicts as language games.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychoanalysis
    • Linguistics
    • Behavioral Psychology

    Background:

    • Exploration of action language as a potential
    • Tracing the roots of action language to anthropological models and neobehaviorist psychology.
    • Examining the philosophical underpinnings: idealism, logical positivism, and radical empiricism.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To summarize the core principles of action language.
    • To analyze its potential impact on psychoanalysis if adopted as a "new metapsychology."
    • To investigate its philosophical and psychological foundations.

    Main Methods:

    • Review and synthesis of action language tenets.
    • Analysis of its connections to linguistic and psychological theories.
    • Philosophical examination of its underpinnings.

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    Main Results:

    • Action language is identified as a form of psychoanalytic behaviorism.
    • Its adoption is hypothesized to confound the motivational aspects of psychoanalysis.
    • It is linked to Wittgenstein's concept of language games.

    Conclusions:

    • Action language, framed as a language game, may resolve patient conflicts by making the "game" disappear.
    • The proposed framework suggests a significant departure from traditional psychoanalytic motivational theories.
    • Its adoption could lead to a behaviorist-oriented psychoanalysis.