From Metaphors of Power to Power as a Metaphor

Abstract

Thinking power is not the same as hold it, however, the place where both events converge is in the way they can be described by words. The interest and analysis of power as a category that structures reality has been present in various disciplines. Each one with its scope or limits has sought to define what power is, and in that effort, they have used metaphorical expressions that account for the process that allowed the construction of some theories or approaches to the concept. This article unravels and analyzes through an interdisciplinary exercise that takes metaphorical analysis as its methodological basis, those metaphors present in the works of various authors with two objectives: 1) to discuss and establish some questions about the interdisciplinary nature of the concept “power” and the value of metaphor in its development and 2) to test the methodological approach used on metaphors in political discourse.