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. Apart from its apparent clinical connection, the notion of transference here will be used to designate the 'transfer process' which is required, according to Aristotle, for the production of 'metaphor'. The notion of resemblance orienting the production of metaphor and subsequently destroying it can also be seen as the moment of the Hegelian Aufhebung, Derrida claims. The role of metaphor and its functioning within philosophic discourse has already been shown to exceed the philosophic concept of the same. The concept of the sensible entails an irreducible relation to an economy of presence and absence of its appearance to us. The notion of the 'death' of metaphor and of philosophy is surely a metaphor itself here and one that represents the 'end'.
