Natorp’s Psychology and Metaphor as Possibilities of Understanding Consciousness
摘要
I aim to show how experience is constructed through a process that can be called ‘metaphorical’. I will do this by beginning with Paul Natorp’s view of the problem of consciousness and some reflections on metaphor in Paul Ricoeur. I will go through some of the basic concepts of Natorp’s Allgemeine Psychologie and focus on the role that ‘re-presentation’ plays in determining how things appear to consciousness. In this way, and through Ricoeur’s remarks on metaphor, I will propose a parallel that aims to show how experience is constituted through the use of metaphor by consciousness.