Lorenzer points out that psychoanalysts, who operate on the basis of a comparatively unified therapy-theory system, encounter difficulties when undertaking an interdisciplinary dialogue with the many heterogeneous language theories current today. He then demonstrates how the unreflective acceptance of Wittgenstein's language-game concept can buttress positivistic misinterpretations of the psychoanalytic method. In contrast, an extended conception of the language-game provides the opportunity for connecting the psychoanalytically oriented exploration of socialization processes and the structural analysis of societal systems. Psychoanalysis is not a language-game; rather, it is aimed at the revision of language-games.