Metaphorical conceptualizations of the body in psychopatology and poetry

• Autor(a) principal: Santarpia, Alfonso
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Venturini, R., Blanchet, A., Cavallo, M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/19931
• topic: construção literal do corpo; metáforas conceptuais do corpo; teoria da simulação contextual-limitada; metáforas lingüísticas do corpo; psicosomática; representação do corpo; sentenças literais do corpo; literary construction of the body; conceptual metaphors of the body; contextlimited simulation theory; linguistic metaphors of the body; psychosomatics; representation of the body; literary sentences of the body

The goal of our study is to identify several conceptualizations of the body expressed in the contexts of psychopathology and literature. We propose a specific categorization of literary sentences drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; 1999) and Context-Limited Simulation Theory (Ritchie 2003; 200; 2008). Based on corpus data, we show that in psychiatric manuals the physical body is always reasoned in metaphoric terms of the BODY-CONTAINER category, thus with a high degree of non-specific attributes. In psychoanalysis manuals, the body is represented by “sexual-sensual sentences” or by abstract “notions”. Italian poetry offers an additional representation of the body with special focus on the organs and other body parts like “heart,” hand(s)”, “face”, but also “blood”, “chest”, “arm(s),” “eye(s)”,“breast(s)”, “head,” “flesh,” “skin”.