Metaphor as illness

Book review: Sontag, Susan; Illness as metaphor, p. 11-17 ([periodical unknown, Autumn 1980, Vol. 2.1])

'...Sontag argues that "illness is not a metaphor" and that "the most truthful way of regarding illness--and the healthiest way of being ill--is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking....She sees in psychological approaches to disease a pervasive metaphoric rooting and shed takes the sort of psychological thinkling that began with Freud and Jung severely to task....'

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