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Self-Representation - Life Narrative Studies in Identity and Ideology (Hardcover, New)
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Self-Representation - Life Narrative Studies in Identity and Ideology (Hardcover, New)
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This innovative work offers a new approach to the study of
self-representation, drawing on both the older "study of lives"
tradition in personality psychology and recent work in "narrative
psychology." Gary S. Gregg presents a generative theory of
self-representation, applying methods of symbolic analysis
developed by cultural anthropologists to the texts of
life-historical interviews. This model accounts for the continual
shifting of identity among contradictory "surface" discourses about
the self, as it shows how each discourse is defined as a
reconfiguration of a stable cluster of "deep"
structurally-ambigious elements. Gregg not only examines the nature
of narrative, but also addresses more mainstream issues in
cognitive science, such as: How is knowledge of the self and its
social world represented? What are the elementary units of
self-cognition? How are cognition and affect linked? After a brief
introduction, the book raises critical questions about
self-representation by presenting re-analyses of two famous case
studies--Freud's "Rat Man" and "Mack and Larry" from The
Authoritarian Personality--and initial observations from Gregg's
fieldwork in Morocco. A theoretical chapter then introduces the
notion of structured ambiguity, which enables a person to shift
between identities by figure or ground-like reversals of key
symbols and metaphors. Three original life-narrative analyses
follow, which, with increasing complexity, develop the model via
analogies to basic structures of tonal music. The work concludes
with a theoretical chapter that reexamines the ideas of William
James, George Herbert Mead, and Erik Erikson about the self's unity
and multiplicity, and then summarizes agenerative model. The book
presents a compelling alternative to prevailing views of
self-cognition and identity, and will be a valuable resource for
courses in psychology, anthropology, and sociology, as well as an
important tool for researchers and professionals in these fields.
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