The Seba library treats Tropological System in 4 passages, across 4 authors (including Derrida, Jacques, John Cassian, Bloom, Harold).
since our principles concerning Catachresis serve as the foundation of our entire tropological system, we cannot but have the ardor to throw greater light on them
This passage, quoted by Derrida from Fontanier, establishes catachresis as the foundational principle of the entire tropological system, making the forced extension of signs the ground of all trope-theory.
, Margins of Philosophy, 1982thesis
there are three kinds of spiritual lore, namely, tropology, allegory, and anagoge… ‘Write these three times over the spread of your heart’
Cassian situates tropology within a tripartite hermeneutic system of spiritual interpretation, positioning it alongside allegory and anagoge as one of the three essential modes of reading sacred and psychic meaning.
, Conferences, 426supporting
Winters and tropological thinking
Bloom’s index entry links Yvor Winters to tropological thinking as a critical mode, implying that tropological analysis functions as a method within literary evaluation and poetic criticism.
, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, 2015aside
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relatio
Ricoeur’s citation of Nietzsche’s definition of truth as a mobile army of tropes contextualizes the tropological field as the very medium through which truth-claims — and thus psychological self-understanding — are constructed.
, Oneself as Another, 1992aside