Into The Woods

Abstract

Metaphors are creative ways of drawing comparisons. Metaphors are also a way of exploring relationship role perceptions. The authors describe how to use the six slices of a relationship metaphoric pie to explore and to strengthen relationships within couples. Metaphor use in everyday language, the arts, and case examples are provided. You as a couple are invited to complete your own Couples Metaphoric Interview Matrices. The article concludes with additional role perception activities from previous “for couples” columns in the Family Journal.

Prepositional City: Spatial Practice and Micro-Neighborhood in Renaissance Florence

“…Another phenomenon, the Florentine propensity to anthropomorphize the built environment, is so much to the fore in the confini that it may be said to hide in plain sight. 67 It manifests in microscopic linguistic slippages-so numerous that they cannot be counted-in which citizens blurred the distinction between urban spaces or structures and the people who inhabited them. Examples proliferate in virtually every Catasto return, as when three brothers of the aristocratic Acciaiuoli lineage declared a house abutting "the alley or, rather, Adovardo Acciaiuoli"; 68 or in 1457, when three of their kinsmen respectively named "the alley or, rather, Lodovico di Adovardo Acciaiuoli" and "Giovanni di Giusto Altoviti or, rather, the alley" as their second and fourth confini.…”