“It Was and It Was Not”

Metaphoric Tension in Psychoanalysis

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ID21374570
AuthorsBrett H Clarke (3001 Highland Avenue, Suite D Cincinnati, OH 45219, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume109
Issue2
Pages121-150
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2836 • E-ISSN: 1943-3301
PublisherGuilford Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1521/prev.2022.109.2.121
PMID35647801
OpenAlexW4281717487
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited42

The author endeavors to reassess how metaphor functions psychoanalytically by distinguishing it from more inclusive conceptualizations of symbolism and metaphor, and from the idea of metaphor as a primary cognitive structure. The author adapts aspects of Ricoeur's metaphor theory, and explores metaphor as organized around tensions of similarity and difference, and of something “being and not-being” simultaneously. Such a model anchors metaphoric meaning in the subject's capacity for metaphoric experience and its relation to unrealized unconscious meaning. The author suggests that this perspective on metaphor—which connects it experientially to mature transitional experience, sublimation, play, and mourning—helps us understand how metaphoric experience functions as our most potent agent of intrapsychic change

Art · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Metaphor · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database) · Similarity (geometry) · Sublimation (psychology) · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology

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