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Psyche's Muse: The Role Of Metaphor In Psychology, David E. Leary

Psychology Faculty Publications

Ever since Aristotle asserted that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor," numerous scholars have studied and written about the nature and functions of metaphor.¹ The vast majority of these scholars have focused on metaphor as a distinctive use of language that has various rhetorical functions.² Recently, however, some scholars have begun to dig deeper into the topic, investigating the possibility that metaphor is not only a form of speech, but more fundamentally a form of thought, having basic epistemological functions.³ With regard to science, for instance, such scholars as Arbib and …