PSYCHOLOGICAL ROLE OF METAPHORS IN THE BELLES-LETTRES DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis and the role of the term “metaphor” in modern scientific fields: philosophy, linguistics, psychology and literary criticism. The phenomenon of metaphor is analysed as a complex of multifunctional discursive category, as an interdisciplinary term. The article unifies approaches to the interpretation of the metaphor and existing interpretations, describes the ways and means of creating metaphors in belles-lettres discourse. The metaphor is analyzed as an important form of penetration into the inner nature and essence of things in the belles-lettres style, psychological discourses, realized in the language through symbolic concepts that function at the level of nuclear (archetypical) metaphors. It is proved that base (archetypical) metaphors form figurative constants, which pass through all the writer's work. The article focuses on the formation of a new direction – linguistic metaphorology, which enables the unification of diversity in the system of metaphor's interpretation, describes the ways and sources of the metaphors’ creation, both in the language communication practice, and in the belles-lettres text. It is concluded that at the present stage, the term “metaphor” is not a simple transfer, by similarity or analogy, but a complex multifunctional discursive category with a tendency to be isolated into an independent scientific interdisciplinary term.