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The Mess Inside - Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind (Hardcover)
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The Mess Inside - Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind (Hardcover)
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Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our
lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. The
notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a
wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and
psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. The Mess Inside
engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path
between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as
having any worthwhile use at all, and those who argue that our very
selfhood is somehow constituted by a narrative.
After introducing the notion of narrative, Goldie discusses the way
we engage with the past in narrative terms. This involves an
exploration of the essentially perspectival nature of narrative
thinking, which gains support from much recent empirical work on
memory. Drawing on literary examples and on work in psychology,
Goldie considers grief as a case study of this kind of narrative
thinking, extending to a discussion of the crucial notion of
"closure." Turning to narrative thinking about our future, Goldie
discusses the many structural parallels between our imaginings of
the future and our memories of the past, and the role of our
emotions in response to what we imagine in thinking about our
future in the light of our past. This is followed by a second case
study--an exploration of self-forgiveness.
In this ground-breaking book, Goldie supports scepticism about the
idea that there is such a thing as a narrative self, but argues
that having a narrative sense of self, quite distinct from any
metaphysical notion of selfhood, is at the heart of what it is to
think of ourselves, and others, as having a narratable past,
present, and future.
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