Charles Elder teaches at the University of Chicago, and one may therefore imagine his taking an interest in the victory of the Chicago Bulls in the National Basketball Association playoffs. If he does, one might further imagine his analyzing the play of the game along lines similar to those he uses in this stimulating study of Freud's psychoanalytic doctrines. For example, if I were to set off for a visit to Berggasse 19 in Vienna, my friends would say I was traveling, and they might well envy me the opportunity. But if one is watching a basketball game traveling refers to taking too many steps between dribbles of the ball, and it is considered a foul, which causes the loss of the ball. What we have here are two different language games, to use Wittgenstein's concept, and the concept that really drives Elder's analysis. Importantly, traveling in the sense of going to Vienna is essentially dependent on the origins and development of the term itself. But in basketball the use of the term is far more arbitrary and can be understood only