'Oceanic' Dedifferentiation and Poetic Metaphor

Author / Editor
Tsur, Reuven.

Title
'Oceanic' Dedifferentiation and Poetic Metaphor

Published
Journal of Pragmatics 12 (1988): 711-24.

Description
Discusses poetic metaphor, especially water imagery, with relation to conceptualization strategies (rapid versus delayed conceptualization) and how psychoanalysis might deal with the issues raised. Delayed conceptualization may provide more adequate responses than does rapid conceptualization. Occasional references to Chaucer's TC: "lovers, that bathen in gladnesse."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.