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
Summary
The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers and literary critics. The research presented in this volume should appeal to the general reader and researchers enmeshed in these problems
