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“Inside or Outside”
Author(s) -
Laura A. Cariola
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
language and psychoanalysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2049-324X
DOI - 10.7565/landp.v9i2.5265
Subject(s) - schematic , autobiographical memory , construct (python library) , container (type theory) , personality psychology , psychology , personality , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , recall , electronic engineering , programming language
By relating the exterior-interior model of body boundary awareness to Lakoff & Johnson’s (1999) in-out orientation of container-schematic conceptualisations, this study aims to explore the use of container-schematic imagery in the autobiographical memories of High and Low Barrier Personalities. The results of this study are based on a corpus of everyday autobiographical memories (N =488) and dream memories (N=450). The results demonstrated that, in both memory types, High Barrier personalities used more semantic fields representing concrete and metaphorical container-schematic imagery (Johnson, 1987), suggesting that container metaphors are similar to the Barrier personality construct. The results are discussed also in reference to the social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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