Kirmayer L J
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1993 Jun;17(2):161-95. doi: 10.1007/BF01379325.
In this essay, I argue that a theory of meaning adequate to account for the effectiveness of symbolic healing and psychotherapy requires some variant of the three concepts of myth, metaphor and archetype. Myth stands for the overarching narrative structures of the self produced and lent authority by cultural tradition. Archetype stands not for performed ideas or images, but for the bodily-given in meaning. Metaphor occupies an intermediate realm, linking narrative and bodily-given experience through imaginative constructions and enactments that allow movement in sensory-affective quality space. This pluralistic perspective itself constitutes a middle-ground between constructivist and realist approaches to meaning that can integrate causal and interpretive models of symbolic healing.
在本文中，我认为一种足以解释象征治疗和心理治疗有效性的意义理论需要神话、隐喻和原型这三个概念的某种变体。神话代表由文化传统产生并赋予权威的自我总体叙事结构。原型代表的不是执行的观念或形象，而是意义中身体所赋予的东西。隐喻占据一个中间领域，通过想象性构建和行为将叙事与身体所赋予的经验联系起来，这些构建和行为允许在感官情感质量空间中移动。这种多元视角本身构成了建构主义和现实主义意义方法之间的中间立场，能够整合象征治疗的因果和解释模型。
