Narrative and Consciousness [electronic resource] : Literature, Psychology and the Brain
Fireman, Gary D.
McVay, Ted E.
Flanagan, Owen J.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2003.
We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirically consistent explanation for narrative in relation to consciousness. Understanding the role of nar
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Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; PART I: THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS; 2. Narrative and the Emergence of a Consciousness of Self; 3. The Development of the Self; PART II: NARRATIVE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; 4. The Role of Narrative in Recollection: A View from Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology; 5. Material Selves: Bodies, Memory, and Autobiographical Narrating; PART III: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE, FICTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF; 6. Rethinking the Fictive, Reclaiming the Real: Autobiography, Narrative Time, and the Burden of Truth
7. Dual Focalization, Retrospective Fictional Autobiography, and the Ethics of LolitaPART IV: NARRATIVE DISRUPTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SELF; 8. The Pursuit of Death in Holocaust Narrative; 9. Community and Coherence: Narrative Contributions to the Psychology of Conflict and Loss; PART V: THE NEURAL SUBSTRATE OF NARRATIVE AND CONSCIOUSNESS REALIZATION (OR THE NATURALIST MODEL); 10. Empirical Evidence for a Narrative Concept of Self; 11. Sexual Identities and Narratives of Self; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirically consistent explanation for narrative in relation to consciousness. Understanding the role of nar
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Autobiographical memory -- Congresses.
Consciousness -- Congresses.
First person narrative -- Congresses.
Consciousness
First person narrative
Autobiographical memory
Self Psychology
Memory
Consciousness
Autobiography as Topic
Self Concept
Personality Development
Biography as Topic
Cognition
Psychophysiology
Psychoanalytic Theory
Learning
Personality
Mental Processes
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
Literature
Psychological Theory
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Psychiatry and Psychology
Humanities
Psychology
Social Sciences