Constructing the self On being a person Personhood Re identification Characterization Whither narrativity Persons vs. selves redux Against narrativity Clive and the pirahã : narrative counter examples Self stories A brief and skewed primer on narratology The point of nonliterary nonfiction The structure of self narratives The function of personal narratives The development of self Piagets legacy A different interpretation The importance of emotional attachment Life stories Cognition as narrative instrument Emotional interlude The social construction of emotion Appraisal theories of emotion The continuum hypothesis Constructing the self Cortical emotions Multiple processing systems Dynamic dual systems : a speculative hypothesis Unconscious mental life Mental content An intelligent unconscious A dumb unconscious Philosophers redux Unconscious narratives and unconscious selves Multiplex and multiple selves Questioning the continuum view of dissociative disorders Multiplex selves Unconstrained storytelling Implications Life at the borders Weak wills Addictions Addiction as a life habit Self control Tourettes syndrome and other assorted tics Death violence and the myth of autonomy The assumption of autonomy Rational suicide Violence and the prefrontal cortex Whither autonomy