Metaphor’s etymological carrying-over mirrors the parable’s theme of being carried

Evidence

Much as people carry “their own enemy” and the brothers are carried by the waves, we encounter the “I” as “rising and falling by day and by night,” if not by night and fog, another of “these holders of power in constant, slow movement, rising or falling.” He is carried over, meta-phorized and para-holed, com-pared, itself a parable ( Gleichnis) of the savages, playing on the side of the savages, an illustration and an example of their abandon. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 761

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Greek etymology of metaphor as ‘carrying over’ (meta-phora) is enacted and unpacked against the parable’s literal imagery of being carried by waves.
• XREF: connects to: Greek grammar conceptualized case and mood as a shared movement of inflection or falling. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1167