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8 Multi-Domain Mapping

This document discusses multi-domain mapping in psychoanalytic instances such as dreams. It provides an example of a dream involving a successful teacher that mapped sexual and nutritive domains as well as mind-body containment and concrete thinking about knowledge. It notes that this kind of multi-domain mapping often appears in fantasies of internalization, where good things or people are represented as being taken into the self, such as representations involving automobiles where people represent themselves or their qualities in terms of their cars.

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8 Multi-Domain Mapping

This document discusses multi-domain mapping in psychoanalytic instances such as dreams. It provides an example of a dream involving a successful teacher that mapped sexual and nutritive domains as well as mind-body containment and concrete thinking about knowledge. It notes that this kind of multi-domain mapping often appears in fantasies of internalization, where good things or people are represented as being taken into the self, such as representations involving automobiles where people represent themselves or their qualities in terms of their cars.

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8 Multi-domain mapping

Although students of conceptual metaphor characteristically speak of cross-domain


mapping, psychoanalytic instances often show mappings involving serveral domains
at once. This is so, for example, in the dream of the successful teacher. For the
dream showed not only a clear representation of sexual by nutritive sucking, but
also a phantasy—upon which the student also seems to have been acting—that the
teacher’s knowledge could be internalized in this concrete way. Hence it also involved
an instance of the mind-body container, and a particular form of concrete thinking
about knowledge, the possibility of which is foreshadowed also in the metaphors
(imbibing ideas, food for thought, etc.) noted above. (The same holds for the
intellectual/sexual solution as represented in the dream of Irma’s Injection.)
This kind of multi-domain mapping frequently figures in phantasies of
internalization, in which good things or persons are represented as taken into the
self. This is particularly notable, for example, in representations involving the
automobile. People very often represent themselves in terms of their cars, or their

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