Christine “la mujer desencarnada” y el papel de las metáforas corporales en el conocimiento de la realidad
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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ISSN: 1130-0507, 1989-4651
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Filosofía y cuerpo desde el pensamiento greco-romano hasta la actualidad. En memoria de Rocío Orsi Portalo
Issue: 5
Pages: 479-488
Type: Article
More publications in: Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía
Abstract
Christine is a woman patient treated by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. Her case appears in the The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Christina suffered from a strange illness. One day her body ceased to obey her. She feels strange, “disembodied”. This paper concentrates on this topic: the mind as something inherently embodied. Cognitive semantics maintains that body and thought are not separate entities. The body is seen as exerting its influence on language and knowledge at a more basic level now. Embodied metaphors are very prevalent in everyday talk, even if the bodily origin is often not easily evident.
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