{"title":"The trip from metaphor to reality and back","authors":"Joseph Glicksohn","doi":"10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101144","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The focus of the present paper is the relationship between metaphor and altered state of consciousness (ASC) characterized by trance. I reconsider two somewhat old ideas that might well have been premature for their time. One is that the mode of thinking in an ASC characterized by trance is metaphoric-symbolic. I argue that this is itself reflective of a heightened physiognomic perception. Furthermore, in such an ASC, an alternative world “becomes physiognomically alive”, and it is this alternative world which is expressed in poetic metaphor. In line with three major ideas expressed in Gestalt psychology, this is so because that is the way we think and perceive in a trancelike ASC, and because that is the alternative world that we now encounter in the trancelike ASC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51556,"journal":{"name":"New Ideas in Psychology","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 101144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"New Ideas in Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X24000722","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The focus of the present paper is the relationship between metaphor and altered state of consciousness (ASC) characterized by trance. I reconsider two somewhat old ideas that might well have been premature for their time. One is that the mode of thinking in an ASC characterized by trance is metaphoric-symbolic. I argue that this is itself reflective of a heightened physiognomic perception. Furthermore, in such an ASC, an alternative world “becomes physiognomically alive”, and it is this alternative world which is expressed in poetic metaphor. In line with three major ideas expressed in Gestalt psychology, this is so because that is the way we think and perceive in a trancelike ASC, and because that is the alternative world that we now encounter in the trancelike ASC.
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New Ideas in Psychology is a journal for theoretical psychology in its broadest sense. We are looking for new and seminal ideas, from within Psychology and from other fields that have something to bring to Psychology. We welcome presentations and criticisms of theory, of background metaphysics, and of fundamental issues of method, both empirical and conceptual. We put special emphasis on the need for informed discussion of psychological theories to be interdisciplinary. Empirical papers are accepted at New Ideas in Psychology, but only as long as they focus on conceptual issues and are theoretically creative. We are also open to comments or debate, interviews, and book reviews.
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