The Metaphoric Process: Connections Between Language and Life

The Metaphoric Process: Connections Between Language and Life
by: Gemma Corradi Fiumara (Author)
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge (November 9, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 041512624X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780415126243
Book Description
Metaphor is much more than just a linguistic phenomena, argues Gemma Corradi Fiumara, it is in fact the key process by which we construct and develop our ability to understand the world and the people we share it with.
Rationality as understood by philosophers has led to a disembodied view of ourselves in which interaction between life and language has been downplayed. By looking at the metaphoric process – in an interpersonal rather than a formal way – its importance in allowing us access to new worlds of experience is revealed. The metaphoric potential in us all exposes us to the world and initiates our involvement in it.

Review
Only a psychoanalytic philosopher could have written this complex, elegant, and highly original book. …this work offers the analyst a wealth of original ideas and an unusual angle from which to understand metaphor during the analytic process… There are great theoretical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic riches in her book. Analysts who read it will enhance their capacity to listen to the metaphorical productions of patients..
About the Author
Gemma Corradi Fiumara is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Third University of Rome and a full member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her writings include Philosophy and Coexistence and The Symbolic Function: Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Language. The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening was published by Routledge in 1990.