ABSTRACT
Metaphor is the application of a strange term either transferred from the genus and applied to the species or from the species and applied to the genus, or from one species to another or else by analogy. 'To have an eye for resemblance', Aristotle says, is the gift of genius that promotes the 'right use of metaphor'. Metaphor has been issued from a network of philosophemes which themselves correspond to tropes or to figures, and these philosophemes are contemporaneous to or in systematic solidarity with those tropes or figures. There is a metaphor, Derrida claims, which recurs in numerous discourses concerning metaphor. The notion of economy, as a system of exchange, is introduced by Aristotle's own definition of metaphor in the transfer process, from naming one object to another, or the shift in attributes from one thing to another. According to Hegel, following Aristotle, the production of oppositions which characterize metaphysics is necessarily related to a process of metaphorization.
