Containers

Roles: container, contents, opening, boundary

Bounded enclosures that hold, protect, and regulate access to their contents. One of Lakoff and Johnson’s primary image schemas — we understand categories, emotions, and institutions as containers with insides, outsides, and boundaries. The frame’s simplicity makes it one of the most universally mapped structures in human cognition.

As Source Frame (30)

• A Problem Is a Locked Container for Its Solution → causal-reasoning
• Abilities Are Entities Inside A Person → mental-experience
• Activities Are Containers → event-structure
• AI Is a Black Box → artificial-intelligence
• AI Safety Is Containment → artificial-intelligence
• Argument Is a Container → argumentation
• Bottleneck → systems-performance
• Categories Are Containers → intellectual-inquiry
• Causes And Effects Are Linked Objects → causal-reasoning
• Communication Is Sending → communication
• Containment → psychotherapy
• Darkness Is a Cover → vision
• Difficulties Are Containers → event-structure
• Emotions Are Entities Within A Person → mental-experience
• External Appearance Is A Cover → embodied-experience
• Holding Environment → mental-experience, organizational-behavior
• Holding Space → psychotherapy
• Internalization → mental-experience
• Investments Are Containers For Money → economics
• Jailbreaking → artificial-intelligence
• Law of Leaky Abstractions
• Life Is a Container → life-course
• Obligations Are Containers → ethics-and-morality
• Properties Are Contents → event-structure
• Relationships Are Enclosures → love-and-relationships
• Shapes Are Containers → geometry
• The Body Is a Container for the Self → embodied-experience
• The Visual Field Is A Container → vision
• Time Is a Container → time-and-temporality
• Unix Shell → software-programs