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The metaphorical map is not the territory. Un-picking the simple metaphors used to explain our understanding of brain chemistry also pulls the rug from under them–to employ another metaphor. Nor does this “lie” anywhere, least of all at the base (or root) of anything. The disturbance of brain chemistry, for example, that many believe lies at the root of some forms of mental illness-such as depression and schizophrenia-does not involve a disturbance as we might know it in the world-a fracas. The problems of living that we blithely call illness or health are so complex that we try to objectify them-through metaphors-perhaps as a means of containing our anxiety. The Scots, to whom metaphor is not wholly unknown, have been known to express their scorn for the too-clever use of metaphor with the use of another metaphor: “you're so sharp you'll cut yourself”. This emphasises the great paradox of communication: that we use a linguistic artifice to communicate the essence of our experience, all the time running the risk that we shall lose this essence in the translation and might also lose our audience in the process.

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The great thing… is to keep the intellect free from them: to remember that they are metaphors. The feelings and the imagination need that support. 2 In a related vein, C S Lewis noted that: Szasz laughed, but his class of educated young people did not, and he realised that they did not really “know” metaphor. Thomas Szasz once told how a medical student claimed to know what a metaphor was, but could not offer an example, saying “my mind is a blank”. However, even where metaphor is an essential part of everyday communication, awareness of its location within discourse, is not always present. Life is so real I can meaningfully represent it only in metaphor. I need to use a foreign word or phrase to evoke its near-inexpressibility.

And finally, it is impossible to relate any aspect of my life experience directly. I hear and talk in words, but the story emerges as a lived experience: I see and feel a sense of place. Second, the story of my life is illuminated, pictorially, inside my head. Moment by moment, the vagaries of experience are recorded on our own tabula rasa, until the book is finally closed. 1 First, life is a story best understood as an evolving narrative.

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