| Description |
x, 249 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Critical psychology |
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Critical psychology.
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| Contents |
1. Rewriting the self. To be mindful of life. Interpretation and selfhood. Questions. The skeptical challenge. Thinking beyond skepticism. The cast of characters -- 2. The story of a life. History, memory, narrative. 'Origins'. To cast out one's demons. Living in the material world. Knowledge and action. Retrospects and prospects. Recollection and development -- 3. In the name of the self. The danger of writing. Language, thought, and reality. Whose words do we speak and write? Origin/ality. Authorship and selfhood. To build a world. Looking toward the future, in anticipation -- 4. Living to tell about it. Pure imagination. Face to face. The start of something big. Narrative delusion and the (meta)historical imagination. The banality of existence. Accidents will happen. Narrative desire -- 5. Fact and fiction. What are the facts of history? Presence and absence. The manifest text. In the aftermath. The problem of the text. To know thyself -- 6. The primal scenes of selfhood. Secrecy and secrets. Double trouble. Lingering despair, appearances notwithstanding. The dead end of rationality. On narrative plausibility. Reconstruction, restoration, and the dialectic of development. Primal scenes -- 7. Who to become. In the wilderness of the self. The seeds of new life. Meaning, morality, and the social construction of narrative. Apostasy and authority. A tale of two worlds. The vertigo of development -- Epilogue: Toward a poetics of life history. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-244) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Autobiographical memory.
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Self-perception.
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| Indexed Term |
Self |
| ISBN |
041504197X hardcover |
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0415041988 paperback |
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