Recently added articles from Psychoanalytic Inquiry:
PROLOGUE
Jan 01, 2009; ... In our prior issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry (Barnett and Katz, 2005), metaphoric processes emerged as a salient clinical factor when exploring ineffable aspects of transference. The contributors to that issue, representing diverse analytic perspectives, indicated collectively that metaphor, in ...
Metaphor-The Bridge Between Feelings and Knowledge
Jan 01, 2009; ... Metaphor can be thought of as the currency of the emotional mind. It is now generally accepted that metaphor is fundamentally embodied and is not simply a figure of speech. We now know that metaphor is the expression of a yet to be determined neurophysiological process that has been secondarily ...
Tractatus Metaphorico-Psychoanalyticus (with apologies to L.W.)
Jan 01, 2009; ... 1. In the broadest sense, all nontautological predication [every act of describing, asserting, etc.]- indeed all communication - is metaphoric, inasmuch as it identifies some particular item with something else. Of course, there is a grammatical (and psychological) difference between attributing ...
Metaphoric Process and Metaphor: The Dialectics of Shared Analytic Experience
Jan 01, 2009; ... Metaphoric processes and verbal metaphors in analysis are at the service of self-objectification and activation of past affective experiences in the context of the transference. The process of working through benefits from metaphorical processes capable of integrating in concise verbalizations ...
Meaning's Vessel: A Metapsychological Understanding of Metaphor
Jan 01, 2009; ... Understood in its modern sense as a primary activity in conceptualization, metaphor is here viewed as the linguistic product of a more fundamental metaphorizing process to be studied from developmental, semiotic, and all metapsychological dimensions. A backward look at the psychoanalytic ...