title: [Experience expressed in language and the function of metaphors].
abstract: On the assumption that psychoanalysis must also be speech analysis, the metaphoric manner of expression in connection with its underlying representations will be examined. It will be shown that in the metaphoric experience is linguistically revealed and accordingly experience plays a part in formation of speech. It will also be indicated that language helps to form the frame of experience and that society factors influence the use and formation of language. The connection will be stressed between illustrative and comparative language and the gaining of knowledge. The functions of the metaphor in the therapeutic process are be worked out and clarified with two case examples.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics
vernacular_title: Das Erleben in der Sprache und die Funktion der Metaphorik.