Barratt and Schafer are in agreement in one area, namely, that psychoanalysis has to be separated from natural science. But the author feels that Schafer's attempt to validate this imperative by means of "a new language for psychoanalysis" is erroneous and serves no useful purpose. He shows how Schafer's ideas are an outgrowth of Wittgensteinian philosophy, with a little of Ryle and Sartre added. Barratt expertly demolishes Schafer's action language concepts but still falls short of differentiating psychoanalysis from natural science and does not really argue well for a dismissal of metapsychology.