La métaphore perceptive. Eidétique et figurativité

Abstract

The processes underlying perceptive metaphors are embodied into the figurativity of discourse, which should not be reduced to rhetorical figures or tropes but also embraces the iconic dimension of syntax, i.e. words order, diathesis, aspect, point of view, etc., as they form the gestalt structure of language by the means of which we recognize the perceptual style of a given discourse. Those different levels of language give an access to the sensitive and categorial perception underlying the schematization of our experience. They are responsible of the very plasticity of meaning, deeply related to the structure of mental imagery or what phenomenology calls inner Gehalt and intuitive content. The main focus of the article is to seize how perceptive metaphor in poetry and in every day life relies on the process of perceptual and categorial construction of reality based on the phenomenological structure of imagination.