How Metaphors of Moving Help?
We have already seen that interests are metaphorically understood as objects contained and often hidden, but clearly seen with the proper orientation or point of view. Metaphors of movement, combined with metaphors of terrain and of seeing, form a kind of mental space or territory where retrospective and prospective action can be conceived. When disputants see things in a new way their positions often change. This is our everyday understanding of how one can see different things from different locations, and this ties together terrain, seeing and moving to give a more complex metaphorical understanding. The logic is contained in the metaphors of physical seeing and movement (not in psychological knowledge of how thinking actually occurs) and communicate a complicated process to students of conflict resolution. But it has limitations, as discussed later. Metaphors of moving include an implicit pattern of starting from an initial location, proceeding along a path, and heading for a desti
