A Psychological Look at Language

Dances with Wolves: A Psychological Review

(Published in the Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1991)

Psychologists analyze conflicts within people, and so it might seem they would not have much to say about Dances with Wolves, a film about conflicts between people — between Indians and U.S. cavalry soldiers.

The Law of Metaphors:

In order to describe the contents of your own mind or someone else's mind, you have to use metaphors.

Metaphor and Imagination

By Thomas R. Hersh

Copyright 2011

Short idea (10): In every conversation there are things unstated and un-statable. In every thought process there is something unthinkable. There are things we aren't grasping, can't grasp, and never will be able to grasp — no matter how confident and optimistic we are feeling at any particular moment.