The Metaphoric Process: Connections Between Language and Life - Softcover

"Only a psychoanalytic philosopher could have written this complex, elegant, and highly original book. ...this work offers the analyst a wealth of original ideas and an unusual angle from which to understand metaphor during the analytic process... There are great theoretical, linguistic, and psychoanalytic riches in her book. Analysts who read it will enhance their capacity to listen to the metaphorical productions of patients.."

Metaphor is more than just a linguistic phenomena, argues Fiumara. It is in fact the key process by which we construct and develop our ability to understand the world and the people we share it with.