Abstract
My purpose in this paper has been to clarify how contemporary interpretations of metaphor, by blurring the boundary between the prose and the poetry of everyday discourse, enliven the psychoanalytic dialogue. This is not merely a matter of literary interest, but finds legitimization in linguistic research, neurobiology, infant observation, and psychoanalytic process research. An appreciation of the overlapping categories of everyday metaphor inaugurates a new kind of attentiveness for the psychoanalytic clinician and suggests an array of technical possibilities for participating in the clinical dialogue that may not have been previously recognized.
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