Narrowing windows

According to Lakoff and Ricoeur’s concept of conceptual and living metaphor, these poetic images are not only part of everyday language use, but are in fact crucial for conceptualisation, world-understanding, understanding and interpretation. The following paper places the collective identity traits of Hungarian society within this metaphorical framework and links István Bibó’s concept of Hungarian communal hysteria to the diagnosis of complex postural stress disorder. The aim of this line of thought is to contribute to a more complex understanding of the collective nervous system through a new metaphor.