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TL;DR: This paper found that an absence of generic words which signify categories or classes seems to be characteristic of schizophrenic patients (Language and Thought, 1945: 25), a defect producing sometimes highly 'poetic' lexical transfers.
Abstract: term is replaced by a sensorial one. The sense of touch is particularly well represented, as it appears from a statistical analysis by Ullmann (1957) and some studies on metaphors denoting mental activity (cf. Koväcs, 1957.). \"An absence of generic words which signify categories or classes\" seems to be characteristic of schizophrenic patients (Language and Thought, 1945: 25), a defect producing sometimes highly 'poetic' lexical transfers. Another kind of regression through metaphor is a tendency to personification. The child who has just learned that \"he cannot dispose but of a part of the world, the Ego, and that the other part, the outside world, often resists his wishes, tries to domesticate the outside world by investing it with Ego-qualities\" (Ferenczi, 1927: I, 73). Lexical metaphors seem to reflect the world of early childhood: in Victor Hugo's poems the river is a winding snake, the roof a small hat (Huguet, 1904: 15ff.). Visual impressions are accepted without intellectual control:

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