how novelists use Metaphors of mind

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Like any science, psychology depends on making links
from the known to the unknown. Throughout the history
of psychology, metaphors have proved an invaluable way
of gaining purchase on the unobservables of human
cognition. Indeed, a history of metaphors of mind
might look very much like a history of psychology. In
this article, I look at how psychologists’
mind-metaphors overlap with, and diverge from, those
used by other writers, and ask what we might gain from
a closer examination of the metaphors that guide
us....

...from:
Metaphors of mind
In the latest in our ‘Eye on fiction’ series, Charles
Fernyhough looks at how novelists have reflected
scientific understanding of the mind.
http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/thepsychologist/search-the-psychologist-online.cfm?fuseaction=inc_psychologistdet&ID=1034&Publication_ID=-1&ShowHTML=true



 
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