Using three case illustrations, the new cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor is presented, and its usefulness for psychoanalytic practice is demonstrated. The step from poetic to conceptual metaphor and, further, to mental kinesics and embodied schemata, as proposed by cognitive linguistics, illustrates the closeness of this approach to the essence of psychoanalysis. The Freudian programmatic theorem, that the ego is embodied, can be applied in more detail. Language is not the opposite of embodiment but its continuation. Conclusions for psychosomatics are indicated.