AFFECTIVITY AND LANGUAGE
AFFECTIVITY AND LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: Metaphor, as therapeutic means, provides a symbolic context that is perceived as being familiar, a permissive point of reference, from which subjects can redefine and restructure their own relationship with reality, now confused and insurmountable. It is a symbolic anchor, thrown at secure depth, a private territory, protected from the aggressiveness of the Other's perception, in which the Ego projects its elements of individual drama, sometimes invisible to the experienced therapist's eye; due to the implicit qualities of the metaphor (associativity, ambiguity, imprecision), the use of such a scenario inaugurates a plurality of directions. Therapeutic stories, provocative metaphorical situations, or simple symbolic suggestions facilitate the restoration and revaluation of the "gaps" or "white spots" symptoms of the Identity map, filling them with what the generic analogue language offers: dreams, iterative metaphorical expressions, obsessive literary fragments.

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