ABSTRACT
At any rate, the horizontal spatial metaphor seems to be the most commonly used, omnipresent in references and publications about psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy, and it is along this dimension that these psychological theories produce explanatory principles which translate, perforce, into a method. In the study of the psyche, the “La” triggering reflections is often clinical experience with the patients themselves. C. G. Jung was amongst the first to see a meaning in the delusional symptoms of what at the time was known as dementia praecox, as is reflected in The Content of the Psychoses. About this work, Frey-Rohn speaks aptly of “a new approach to psychotherapy”, in which “instead of dismissing the systematized fantasies of demented persons as bizarre and nothing more, found it more appropriate to arouse in the patient a feeling that his fantastic formations had a meaning common to all humans”.
