Listening to words, seeing images: Metaphors of emotional movement

By three case illustrations the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor is expanded by a new theory of interactive paradoxes. The author attempts to show the use of this conception for psychoanalytic practice. The step from poetic to conceptual metaphor and, further, to mental kinetics and embodied schemata, as proposed by cognitive linguistic, illustrates the proximity of this approach to psychoanalytic essentials. The Freudian programmatic sentence, that the ego be embodied can be applied in more detail. Thus, psychoanalysis and cognitive science can be seen to rapproach. Conversation is not the opposite to embodiment but its continuation. Conclusions for psychosomatics are indicated.