If Wittgenstein and Lyotard could talk with Jack and Jill: towards postmodern family therapy

This essay uses a literary device to create a transcript of an imagined con versation between postmodern philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jean-Fran cois Lyotard with two family therapy trainees, Jack and Jill, in order to e xplain key postmodern concepts as they might relate to family therapy. Thes e include Lyotard's concepts of a differend, paralogy, meta-narrative, and Wittgenstein's concepts of a language game, language game confusions and fa mily resemblance. Other postmodern theorists and therapists make cameo appe arances in the conversation, tying their own ideas to the topics under disc ussion. The essay also addresses the criticism of postmodernism raised by B arbara Held.