Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis

doi:10.6531/JFS.2015.20(1).A55

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Title:	Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Authors:	MacGill, Victor
Keywords:	CLA;myth;metaphor;archetype;embodied cognition
Date:	2015-09
Issue Date:	2017-01-16 15:07:54 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	淡江大學未來學研究所
Abstract:	This paper investigates how the myth/metaphor layer of Inayatullah’s Causal Layered Analysis is formed, using an embodied cognitive approach. The very way we experience the world, move in it, interact within it and orient our body to our environment generates patterns and concepts that form as metaphors. Language is saturated in metaphor. As we interact together shared metaphors connect together to emerge and take shape as myths. These are the building blocks of Inayatullah’s worldview layer. The worldview that emerges from social interactions of a group of people form a particular arrangement of interlinking elements from the myth/metaphor layer. The worldview informs the systemic layer, which in turn informs the litany of everyday life. Any particular worldview is therefore only ever one within many possible ways of interlinking the mythic and epistemic elements. It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming our particular worldview is the best, or even the only true worldview. CLA helps us to avoid this problem as it problematises the present and find new metaphors to enable us to envision alternative and preferred futures.
Relation:	Journal of Futures Studies 20(1), pp.55-68
DOI:	10.6531/JFS.2015.20(1).A55
Appears in Collections:	[Journal of Futures Studies] v.20 n.1

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