Tag: Psychology

The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?

by Dominik Lukeš · 2011-07-10

I have forgotten a lot of things in my life. Names, faces, numbers, words, facts, events, quotes. Just like for anyone, forgetting is as much a part of my life as remembering. Memories short and long come and go. But only twice in my life have I seen a good memory die under suspicious circumstances…

Hacking a metaphor in five steps

by Dominik Lukeš · 2010-07-18

Preliminaries 1. Before you start metaphor hacking you must first accept that you don't have a choice but to speak in some sort of a figurative fashion. Almost nothing worth saying is entirely literal and there are many things whose "literalness" is rooted in metaphor. Look at "I sat in a chair the whole day."…