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Publication details [#2723]
Borbely, Antal F. 2008. Metaphor and psychoanalysis. In Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press . pp. 412–424. 13 pp.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Cambridge , UK: Cambridge University Press
Abstract
Borbely's chapter describes the importance of metaphor in the concepts and practice of psychoanalysis ("Metaphor and Psychoanalysis"). Although psychoanalysts have long debated the role of metaphor in psychoanalysis, Borbely offers a new understanding of metaphor and its interaction with metonymy within psychoanalysis by situating his overview in terms of contemporary advances in metaphor research over the past two decades. By demonstrating how key psychodynamic concepts such as trauma, defense, transference, and interpretation are grounded in fundamental metaphoric and metonymic principles, this chapter provides for new links between psychoanalysis and research from cognitive science.
(Raymond Gibbs)