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Author: Davidson D.

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Article published in the «Critical Inquiry» — 1978 — Vol. 5 — No. 1 (Special Issue on Metaphor, Autumn) — pp. 31-47.
Metaphor is the dreamwork of language and, like all dreamwork, its interpretation reflects as much on the interpreter as on the originator. The interpretation of dreams requires collaboration between a dreamer and a waker, even if they be the same person; and the act of interpretation is itself a work of the imagination. So too understanding a metaphor is as much a creative endeavor as making a metaphor, and as little guided by rules.
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