Teaching Students at Risk (abstract)
by Jeffrey Berman
The Uses of Paradox: Brain Function and the Arts (abstract)
by Garry Kennard
Non-Individuation and Wedding with Death in the Works of Friedrich Dürrenmat (abstract)
German text: Nicht-Individuation und Todeshochzeit bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt
by Brigitte Boothe
"Satiate yet unstatisfi'd": Desire, Commodification and the Sublimity of the Early Modern English Playwright (abstract)
by Katherine O. Acheson
Gazes, Fires, and Brain-Body Repair in Brontë's Jane Eyre (abstract)
by Nina Pelikan Straus
This Editor Ponders: The Neurosciences and the Arts (abstract)
by Norman N. Holland
Heimlich Maneuvers: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema (abstract)
by Harvey Roy Greenberg
Of Time, Narrative, and Cast Away (abstract)
by Douglas H. Ingram
"Psychic Fragmentation and Ego Defense in Charles Brockden Brown's "Somnambulism. A Fragment" " (abstract)
by Steven Hamelman
"In Defense of Volumnia's Mothering in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus" (abstract)
by Marvin Krims
Metaphor and Psychoanalysis
Editors:
Burton A. Melnick
Norman N. Holland
The sequence of an introduction and nine papers that follows constitutes an "e-book": Metaphor and Psychoanalysis. These papers develop the implications for psychoanalysis of the new conception of metaphor being developed in cognitive linguistics. The editor of the collection is Burton A. Melnick, of the International School, Geneva, with co-editing from Norman N. Holland, one of the editors of PsyArt.
Introduction
by Burton Melnick
Cognitive Linguistics (abstract)
by George Lakoff
Transference: Love, Journeys, and Psychoanalysis (abstract)
by Marco Casonato
Containers, Mental Space, and Psychodynamics (abstract)
by Bent Rosenbaum and David Garfield
A cognitive linguistic view of metaphor and therapeutic discourse (abstract)
by Zoltán Kövecses
How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams (abstract)
by George Lakoff
An Extension of George Lakoff's "How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams" (abstract)
by Norman N. Holland
The Analyst's Metaphors (abstract)
by Donald Carveth
Reflections on Metaphor and Affects (abstract)
by Arnold Modell
Metaphor and the Violent Act (abstract)
by Donald Campbell and Henrik Enckell |
article 010131 |
| Teaching Students at Risk |
by
Jeffrey Berman |
Can a reader's identification with a diseased or dying character in a story be so intense that it threatens to undermine his or her health? If so; what precautions should a teacher take to prevent students from becoming anxious; depressed; or suicidal? This essay begins with a brief discussion of three undergraduates who became at risk as a result of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening; Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; and D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel. The essay then reports on the author's posting to subscribers of PSYART: asking them whether they ever encountered the phenomenon of "risky reading" in their classrooms. The essay ends with a discussion of the ways in which teachers can create a responsible pedagogy of risk that will allow students to confront painful and shameful subjects without becoming unduly vulnerable.
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keywords: pedagogy of risk; depression; suicide; trauma; contagion theory; reader-response theory; writing therapy; The White Hotel;The Awakening; The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; D. M. Thomas; Kate Chopin |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_berman01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Forthcoming in Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom, University of Massachusetts Press.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Berman, Jeffrey. "Teaching Students at Risk." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010131. January 31, 2001.Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_berman01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: January 31, 2001 || Published: February 17, 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Jeffrey Berman |
author info: |
| Jeffrey Berman |
jberman@albany.edu |
English Department University at Albany |
University at Albany
Albany, New York 12222
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article 010414 |
| The Uses of Paradox: Brain Function and the Arts |
by
Garry Kennard |
The intuitive insights of art and religion are being superseded by revelations about human perception. This essay examines large questions in that vein: How the brain invents both art and the world by the same process. Why people use art and how art makes its effects. How the feeling of transcendence to be had from great works of art is a definable process which uses visual and aural paradox to work its way through layers of consciousness. Examples are taken from autism and epilepsy. Via an examination of the visual paradoxes contained in late works of Rembrandt and Cézanne we reach a clarion call for a redefining of human identity and a clearer correspondence between artists and scientists in the exploration of perception. A practicing artist's prophetic warning: Those who ignore recent research into brain functions are in danger of becoming the new form of flat-earther.
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keywords: Cezanne, Rembrandt, perception, paradox, identity, transcendence, brain |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_kennard01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Kennard, Garry. "Uses of Paradox: Brain Function and the Arts" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010214. February 14, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_kennard01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: February 14, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Garry Kennard |
author info: |
article 010424 |
| Non-Individuation and Wedding with Death in the Works of Friedrich Dürrenmat (click here for the German text) |
by
Brigitte Boothe |
"Der Rebell," one of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's later sketches in prose, has the structure of a story of becoming oneself and finding oneself that ends with the protagonist's uniting with a loved person. But by citing the prototypic pattern of a dramaturgy of individuation the author creates something else: the dramaturgy of radical non-individuation, which ends with self-destruction. The dramaturgy of non-individuation, which is presented in an exemplary manner in the narrative sketch "Der Rebell" is typical for the prose and drama writings of Dürrenmatt. Friedrich Dürrenmatt's protagonists do not become persons. They remain forever the same and perish in the end. Individuation doesn't happen; the characters don't become complex human beings. And yet, they transcend their existence; they surrender themselves to death, they get married to Death. How this comes about will be illustrated through an examination of "Der Rebell." This text contains essential elements of the narrative construction that is characteristic of Dürrenmatt's later works Labyrinth and Turmbau, which contain his Stoffe ("materials"), as well as of other writings. Dürrenmatt presents with his dramaturgy of non-individuation and surrender to death a central theme of religious experience in the 20th century: the subconscious culture of religiousness as dramaturgy of a sacred death.
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keywords: Dürrenmatt religiosity culture death wish dramaturgy narrative construction narrative analysis Oedipus complex fatherless society exodus mother-son-intimacy |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_boothe01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Boothe, Brigitte. "Non-Individuation and Wedding with Death in the Works of Friedrich Dürrenmat" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010424. January 31, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_boothe01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: April 24, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Brigitte Boothe |
author info: |
| Brigitte Boothe |
boothe@klipsy.unizh.ch |
Department of Clinical Psychology I |
Schmelzbergstrasse 40
CH-8044 Zurich
Switzerland
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article 010501 |
| ”Satiate yet unstatisfi'd”: Desire, Commodification and the Sublimity of the Early Modern English Playwright |
by
Katherine O. Acheson |
This paper surveys English play-text prefaces from 1570 to the mid-1630s and reads them and the shifts in their representation according to Slavoj Zizek's analysis, as articulated in The Sublime Object of Ideology, of the commodity and his notion of the 'sublime body' or 'object.' According to this analysis, the text enters the marketplace as a perfect commodity, in which the pleasure of the reader is to be obtained, and the pleasure of the author disregarded; in the course of a half century, the author claims his pleasure, bit by bit, and the control over interpretation that implies, until the text is figured as a sublime object, impervious to abuse or misunderstanding. In brief, the paper contends that one of the many ways to see the changes in the literary culture of the period, with particular reference to the play-text, is to see it as caught at a nexus of desires, "satiate yet unsatisfi'd," which profoundly affect the status of the text as a commodity, and the emergence of the author as a sublime object of literary ideology.
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keywords: Renaissance drama, author, Shakespeare, Zizek, prefaces, sexuality, textuality, intention. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_acheson01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Acheson, Katherine O. " 'Satiate yet unstatisfi'd': Desire, Commodificaiton and the Sublimity of the Early Modern English Playwright". PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010501. May 1, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_acheson01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: May 1, 2001 || Published: July 16, 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Katherine O. Acheson |
author info: |
| Katherine O. Acheson |
koa@watarts.uwaterloo.ca |
Department of English |
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 1G3 Canada
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article 010322 |
| Gazes, Fires, and Brain-Body Repair in Brontë's Jane Eyre |
by
Nina Pelikan Straus |
The idea that the other's gaze can destroy but can also repair, thematized in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, now finds its cognitive base in the chemistry and anatomy of the body involving the development of neurons in the cortico-limbic areas of the brain. This paper suggests how neurobiological-psychoanalytic approaches to metaphor enable us to understand more clearly what stimulates readers' intense emotional reactions to Brontë's novel; how fire and gaze metaphors, in Brontë's handling, are never not connected to "the locus of the bodily-based self system" (Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self [1994]). Critics of the novel have always noted the fire metaphors which connect childhood Jane's shame in the Red-room to the incendiary motifs of the "mad woman" Bertha, to Jane's "veins running fire" in passion for Rochester but also to feminist rage, and to the burning of Thornfield and Rochester's arm and eyes. The novel supports the neurological evidence that telling and reading of self-stories has therapeutic power: a power to repair brain-body networks that constitute the self.
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keywords: affect regulation; Brontë; Jane Eyre; Allan N. Schore; gaze; fire; feminist criticism |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_straus01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Straus, Nina Pelikan. "Gazes, Fires, and Brain-Body Repair in Brontë's Jane Eyre." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010322. March 27, 2001 Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_straus01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Nina Pelikan Straus |
author info: |
| Nina Pelikan Straus |
Nina.Straus@purchase.edu |
Humanities Division
Creative Writing Program |
Purchase College
State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, N.Y. 10577
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article 010701 |
| The Neurosciences and the Arts |
by
Norman N. Holland |
The neurosciences and the human sciences seek mind in two different ways. One studies special populations under experimental conditions. The other proceeds from the assumption set out by Chomsky and Freud, that whatever all humans do must be innate in the brain. Combining these two approaches is leading to insights into the arts. Understanding the brain processes that use universal grammar suggests the special "exercise" function of poetic language. Metaphor as embodied thought is probably hard wired in the brain also. The sociality inherent in our brains explains audience and reader response. Systems in the brain for a persistent identity explain also the persistence of artists' styles. Infants' experience with animate and inanimate objects may explain our dual experience of literature and the arts: emotional and analytical.
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keywords: Freud: Chomsky; Lakoff; universal grammar; metaphor; poetic language; identity; style; response |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_holland03.shtml
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History: this is a much expanded version of Norman N. Holland, "The Alp: The Human Sciences and the Neurosciences," 18th International Conference in Literature and Psychology, University of Nicosia (Cyprus), May 16, 2001. To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman N. "The Neurosciences and the Arts." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 010701. September 19, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_holland03.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Norman N. Holland |
author info: |
| Norman N. Holland |
nholland@ufl.edu |
Deptartment of English
University of Florida |
P. O. Box 117310
Gainesville FL 32611-7310 U.S.A. |
article 010327 |
| Heimlich Maneuvers: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema |
by
Harvey Roy Greenberg |
Movie monsters first appear as terrifying, destructive, and often malevolent creatures. In sequels, however, they regularly reappear as (1) figures of fun; (2) mascot-like friends of children; or (3) omnipotently benevolent protectors, often under the guidance of children. Many monsters over many decades under widely varying cultural circumstances undergo this mellowing, rooted in fairy tale and folklore. There are the humorous sequels to the classic 1940s Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolf Man movies that introduce Abbott and Costello or the Three Stooges. In the 1950s Godzilla/Toho Studio films, a kinder, gentler Godzilla saves the world from destruction, supervised by the inevitable boy with a baseball cap. Terminator II recasts Schwartzenegger's malevolent juggernaut as the protector of a child. Using psychoanalytic understanding of child development and insights derived from anthropology and narrative theory, I offer an interpretation of this phenomenon.
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keywords: monsters; child development; folklore; fairy tale; Godzilla; Frankenstein; Dracula; Wolf Man |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_greenberg04.shtml
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This essay, pre-published in PSYART, will appear in Freud's Worst Nightmares: Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film, ed. Steven Jay Schneider, expected to be published as part of the Cambridge University Press' "Studies in Film" series. To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Greenberg, Harvey Roy. "Heimlich Maneuvers: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema." PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 010327. October 1, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_greenberg04.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: September 7, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Harvey Roy Greenberg |
author info: |
| Harvey Roy Greenberg |
hrgsmes@aol.com |
Department of Psychiatry
Yeshiva University, New York 10033 NY |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
320 West 86th St.
New York, NY 10024
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article 010907_ |
| Of Time, Narrative, and Cast Away |
by
Douglas H. Ingram |
The film Cast Away provides a provocative and legitimate exploration of the many psychological challenges encountered by castaways or, more generally, by individuals facing prolonged involuntary isolation. The protagonist's externalization of a stable dissociated ego-state to a found object, a volleyball, results from the construction of dialogized consciousness and reconstituted temporality. Neurophysiologic correlates are discussed.
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keywords: castaway, psychology, film, Lacan, neurophysiology, psychoanalysis, dialogue, temporality |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_ingram01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Ingram, Douglas H. "Of Time, Narrative, and Cast Away" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 010327. October 1, 2001. Available http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart/2001_ingram01.shtml. Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article]. |
| Received: September 7, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Douglas H. Ingram |
author info: |
| Douglas H. Ingram |
DHIngramMD@aol.com |
Department of of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences |
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY 10595
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article 010907_ |
| "Somnambulism. A Fragment" |
by
Steven Hamelman |
Charles Brockden Brown`s short story "Somnambulism. A Fragment" (1805) invites us to explore the nature of fragmentation in a tale that, formally at least, appears to be a triumph of cohesion. Before analyzing fragmentation as a psychological issue in "Somnambulism. A Fragment," I contextualize its bearing on the tale in two important ways. First, I relate Brown`s story, arguably his best, to the romantic fragment genre originating in Germany. Second, I consider signs of the fragmentation of individuality that affected citizens of the marketplace in the Early National Period. This preliminary discussion leads to a psychological analysis of a love-lorn protagonist. Brown has created a classic character, a prototypical neurotic, who attempts to protect his ego, battered by unrequited love, through a number of defense mechanisms. These mechanisms highlight the existence of psychic fragmentation despite the veneer of self-control the protagonist tries to cast over his repressed hostility.
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keywords: ego, defense mechanisms, defensive exclusion, regulation, denial, rationalization, projection, romantic fragment genre, Anna Freud. |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_hamelman01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Hamelman, Steven "Somnambulism. A Fragment" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 010907. October 24, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_hamelman01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article]. |
| Received: September 7, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Steven Hamelman |
author info: |
| Steven Hamelman |
steveh@coastal.edu |
Department of English
Coastal Carolina University |
P.O. Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528-6054 |
article 011006 |
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In Defense of Volumnia's Mothering in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus |
by
Marvin Krims |
Psychoanalytic literary critics usually hold Volumnia responsible for her son's hyperaggressive personality, an opinion based upon a reading of Volumnia's own words as imagined by Shakespeare. These words include sue," and to her friends with haughty pride, "To a cruel war, I sent him." In this essay, I argue that reading Volumch provocative statements to her son as "Thy valiantness [meaning his savagery] was mine, thou suckedst from mnia as responsible for Coriolanus's personality is incomplete because it overlooks both Shakespeare's representation of more maternal layers beneath her abrasive exterior and suggestions in the text of constitutional factors operating within her son, quite apart from his mother's influence. Such constitutional factors have been emphasized by recent longitudinal studies of hyperactive, hyperaggressive children and adults. Thus, once again, Shakespeare's intuition anticipates the findings of modern psychology.
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keywords: maternal influence, hyperactivity, hyperaggression, child development |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_krims04.shtml
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History: this essay was awarded the 1998 Robert J. Stoller Foundation Prize, for an essay on “psychoanalytically informed research in the bio-behavioral sciences, social sciences, or humanities.” Presented at The American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Toronto, Canada July 1998.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Krims, Marvin. "In Defense of Volumnia's Mothering in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Coriolanus" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 011006. October 1, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2002_krims04.shtml, Dec. 31, 2002 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: October 6, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001
Marvin Krims |
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article 0112M1 _ |
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Cognitive Linguistics |
by
George Lakoff |
This introduction to the new theories of metaphor defines that term as clarifying a target domain (less understood) by speaking of it in the terms of a source domain (better understood). One maps the source domain onto the target domain, as when we use the language of journeys to understand love. The term "conceptual metaphors" refers to these general mappings. Metaphors are not single, odd instances of language, but rest on these conceptual mappings.
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keywords: metaphor; cognitive science; mapping; source; target; conceptual metaphor |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_lakoff01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Lakoff, George. "How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis." Dreaming 5.2 (1993): 77-98.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Lakoff, George. "Cognitive Linguistics." PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M1. December 18, 2001. December 18, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_lakoff01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 George Lakoff |
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article 0112M2 |
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Transference: Love, Journeys, and Psychoanalysis
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by
Marco Casonato |
Transference, itself a metaphorical concept, operates through metaphor. Given the well-known transference motif of the patient's being "in love" with the analyst, our conventional metaphors for love inevitably underlie much psychoanalytic discourse about the patient-analyst relationship. This essay analyzes several such metaphors--e.g, love is magic, love is a collaborative work of art--and examines how they may function within a psychoanalysis. The essay also proposes a particularly detailed analysis of LOVE IS A JOURNEY and its psychoanalytic derivative, THERAPY IS A JOURNEY. These are deeply entrenched metaphors which allow us to reason about love and therapy on the basis of what we already know about journeys. Metaphorical references to journeying commonly occur in both the dreams and discourse of analytic patients, and they may be used to monitor the progress of an analysis and to identify issues in it that require attention.
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keywords: metaphor, dreams, therapeutic relationship
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url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_casonato01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Casonato, Marco. Metafore. Rome: La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1994.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Casonato, Marco. "Transference: Love, Journeys, and Psychoanalysis." PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M2. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_casonato01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 2001 Marco Casonato |
author info: |
| Marco Casonato |
marco.casonato@unimib.it |
Facoltà di Psicologia
Università degli Studi Milano - Bicocca |
Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1
20126 Milano |
article 0112M3 |
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Containers, Mental Space, and Psychodynamics
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Bent Rosenbaum & David Garfield |
The concept of the container has a place within cognitive science as well as within psychodynamic theories. Cognitive semantics has shown that many metaphors giving meaning to daily life-events use the container as a basic reference point. Psychoanalytic theory, most notably, Freud's psychosexual developmental model, illustrates how the container of the body results in meaning. Object relations theory in psychoanalysis has shown how patients with borderline personality disorder behave according to the dynamics of container and containment. Both the cognitive and the psychodynamic conceptions of containers are clinically relevant. The fundamental notion of the container leads to an exploration of 'container dynamics' both in cognitive semantics and in psychodynamic work. A model of the cusp may be of help in the description of the dynamics at the border of the container. Furthermore, the descriptions of the patient's communication of emotion and thoughts may involve three interacting dimensions: an affective-perceptual dimension, a phantasy dimension and as socio-interactive dimension. The interaction between these dimensions has implications for dealing with container dynamics and the process of containment.
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keywords: metaphor; cognitive semantics; object relations; communication |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_rosenbaum01.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Rosenbaum, Bent, and David Garfield. "containers, mental space and psychodynamics." British Journal of Medical Psychology 69 (1996): 281-297.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Rosenbaum, Bent, and David Garfield. "containers, mental space and psychodynamics." PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M3. December 18, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_rosenbaum01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 1996 by The British Psychological Society. Reprinted with permission from the British Journal of Medical Psychology |
author info: |
| Bent Rosenbaum |
bros@glostruphosp.kbhamt.dk |
Department of Psychotherapy |
Psychiatric University Hospital in
Aarhus DK-8240 Risskov,
DENMARK |
article 010101 |
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A cognitive linguistic view of metaphor and therapeutic discourse |
by
Zoltán Kövecses |
In the cognitive linguistic view, three levels of metaphor can be usefully distinguished (see K–vecses, 2002, ch. 17): (1) the "supra-individual" level, (2) the individual level, and (3) the "sub-individual" level. I suggest that each "conceptual metaphor" (as Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, call metaphors of thought, not just of language) can be analyzed on these three levels. Most of the recent research in cognitive linguistics takes place on and is directed at one or several of these levels. In this paper, I will try to characterize the three levels, point out some common misunderstandings concerning metaphor analysis, and show some of the potential of this view of metaphor for psychotherapy. My goal in this paper is not to deal with any specific issues concerning the study of metaphor in psychotherapy (such as whether
| Zoltán Kövecses |
zoltan@icsi.berkeley.edu |
Eötvös Loránd University
Department of American Studies
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Ajtosi Durer sor 19-21,
1146 Budapest, Hungary |
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How Metaphor Structures Dreams:
The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis |
by
George Lakoff |
Cognitive Science has revealed an extensive, unconscious system of conceptual metaphor that is part of our everyday conceptual systems and that can be thought of as a kind of "language of the unconscious." This system, for the most part is not idiosyncratic, but defies conventional modes of thought within a culture and is expressed in the lexicon and grammar of languages. This unconscious metaphor system, since it structures ordinary thought, also structures dreams, connecting the hidden meanings of dreams to their overt meanings and images in a systematic way. Dreams, not surprisingly, typically express desires, fears, and other important conscious or unconscious in the everyday life of the dreamer. Most dream symbolism makes use of this conventional metaphor system. Familiarity both with the system and with the life of the dreamer greatly facilitate dream interpretation.
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keywords: Freud; dreams; symbols; Joseph; mapping; cognitive linguistics |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_lakoff02.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Lakoff, George. "How Metaphor Structures Dreams: The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor Applied to Dream Analysis." Dreaming 5.2 (1993): 77-98.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Lakoff, George. "How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams." PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M4. December 18, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_lakoff02.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: August 1, 2001 || Published: September 20, 2001 || Copyright © 2001 George Lakoff |
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article 0112M5 |
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An Extension of George Lakoff's
"How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams |
by
Norman N. Holland |
The metaphorical mappings in dreams that Lakoff describes add a new category to the various "ready-made" elements of dreams identified by Freud: calculations, speeches, sound associations, and cultural symbols. The distinction between ready-made and newly created dream images seems to me analogous to Pinker's distinction between regular and irregular grammatical forms. Hence, the same brain system may do the job of choosing between then and this same system may be relaxed to allow writers and artists to create.
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keywords: Freud; Jung; Pinker; symbols; regular; irregular; speeches; calculations; sound; creativity |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_holland04.shtml
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Citations of print publication: None
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Holland, Norman N. "An Extension of George Lakoff's `How Unconscious Metaphorical Thought Shapes Dreams.' PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M5. December 18, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart2001_holland04.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article]
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| Received: August 25, 2001 || Published: September 19, 2001 || Copyright © 2001
Norman N. Holland |
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nholland@ufl.edu |
Deptartment of English
University of Florida |
P. O. Box 117310
Gainesville FL 32611-7310 U.S.A. |
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The Analyst's Metaphors: A Deconstructionist Perspective |
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Donald Carveth |
In simile one thing is said to be like another; in metaphor it is said to be another. As long as the metaphor is "alive" the equation is understood as an analogy, whereas in "dead" metaphor the identity of the terms is accepted. There is a tendency for "live" metaphors to regress into the "dead" metaphors that shape the thought and action of both analysands and analysts. Analytic concepts are sometimes little more than reifications of unconscious phantasies which, as "dead" metaphors, "possess" us. Such metaphorical monopolies reflect a fetishism of the imagination that breeds intolerance. On the other hand, "live" contrast, in which one thing is said to be (relatively) distinct from another, tends to regress to "dead" contrast or splitting in which two things are said to be (absolutely) antithetical. A conception of psychoanalysis as the enlightening transformation of "dead" metaphors (fusions) and contrasts (splits) into "live" ones is developed.
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keywords: simile, "live" metaphor; "dead" metaphor; fetishism; fusion; splitting; literalization |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_carveth04.shtml
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Citations of print publication: Carveth, Donald L. "The Analyst's Metaphors: A Deconstructionist Perspective." Psychoanalyis and Contemporary Thought, 7.4 (1984): 491-560. German translation: "Die Metaphern des Analytikers. Eine dekonstructionistische Perspektive." In: Buchholz, M.B. (Hrsg). Metaphernanalyse. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.
To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Carveth, Donald L. "The Analyst's Metaphors: A Deconstructionist Perspective." PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 0112M6. December 18, 2001. October 1, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_carveth04.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: August 25, 2001 || Published: September 19, 2001 || Copyright © 1984
Donald Carveth |
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| Donald Carveth |
dcarveth@yorku.ca |
Glendon College
York University
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Toronto, Ontario
M4N 3M6 CANADA |
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Reflections on Metaphor and Affects |
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Arnold H. Modell |
This paper shows how metaphor, memory and affects form one synergistic system. It assumes: 1) metaphor is a cognitive process, not mere figurative speech (Lakoff and Johnson); 2) metaphor plays a salient role in categorizing emotional memory; 3) memory is both categorical and retranscriptive (Edelman). By allowing us to find the familiar in the unfamiliar, metaphor provides our earliest, most fundamental means of structuring experience, a schema for bringing feelings and other bodily sensations within the agency of the self. In health the metaphoric process helps recontextualize experience. In trauma, experiences are not recontextualized, foreclosing and freezing the metaphoric correspondence between past and present. Without the play of similarity and difference between the past and current experience, metaphor fails to generate new meanings. This foreclosure helps explain psychoanalytic transference and other forms of "repetition compulsion".
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keywords: foreclosure; transference; repetition compulsion; emotional memory; affects; Edelman |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_modell01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Modell, Arnold. "Reflections on Metaphor and Affects" PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 0010M7. October 1, 2001. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2001_modell01.shtml, Dec. 31, 2001 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: August 10, 2001 || Published: 2001 || Copyright © 1997
Arnold H. Modell |
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| Normand H. Modell |
amodell617@aol.com |
Harvard Medical School,
Psychiatry
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82 Kirkstall Rd.
Newtonville, MA 02460 |
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by Donald Campbell and Henrik Enckell |
During the treatment of violent individuals who were, incidentally, highly verbal, the authors noticed that physical assaults were often preceded by the perpetrator’s use of metaphors. It was observed that the linguistic metaphors failed to function as ordinary ‘as if’ devices and became ‘concretised’. When this occurred, the perpetrators resorted to a physical attack. In this paper, the authors argue that the capacity to interconnect (which is considered to be the essence of psychic work) is dependent upon what can be conceptualised as a primary mental ‘frame’ or ‘warp’. Distortion of the warp will, in turn, weaken the ‘weaving’, or interconnecting function of the ego, which is considered analogous to the interconnecting in linguistic metaphors. Clinical material from the treatment of three violent men (two in psychotherapy and one in analysis) is used to illustrate the hypothesis that the concretised use of metaphor represents a restitutive, but failed attempt to maintain a psychic coherence in the face of an imminent breakdown. |
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keywords: metaphor, concrete metaphor, violence, violent acts, symbolisation, primary identification, body ego, transference, primal psychic matrix |
url: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2006_campbell01.shtml
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To cite this article, use this bibliographical entry: Campbell, Donald and Henrik Enckell. Metaphor and the Violent Act. PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, Article 060601. Available HTTP: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/2006_campbell01.shtml, August 15, 2006 [or whatever date you accessed the article].
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| Received: June 1, 2006. || Published: August 12, 2006 || Copyright © 2006 by Donald Campbell and Henrik Enckell |
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| Henrik Enckell |
henrik.enckell@kolumbus.fi |
Department of Psychiatry
University Hospital of Kuopio
Estnäsgatan 7 E 9, FIN-00170
Helsinki, Finland
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