Post on 18-Jul-2015
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“The story of a life continues to
be refigured by all the truthful or
fictive stories a subject tells about
himself or herself. This
refiguration makes this life itself a
cloth woven of stories told.”
It is therefore by means of the
imaginative variations of our own
ego that we attempt to obtain a
narrative understanding of
ourselves...
I am stressing the expression
„narrative identity‟ for what we
call subjectivity is neither an
incoherent series of events nor an
immutable
substantiality, impervious to
evolution....
...the apparent choice between
sheer change and absolute
identity. Between the two lies
narrative identity...
“...we dream in narrative, day-
dream in
narrative, remember, anticipate,
hope, despair, believe, doubt, pla
n, revise, criticize, construct, goss
ip, learn, hate and love by
narrative…"