Głowa pełna głosów. Pessoi i Dennetta koncepcje jaźni
The head full of voices. Pessoa and Dennett on the self

Summary/Abstract: When confronted against each other, the concept of the self based on the writings of Fernando Pessoa and the philosophical project of Daniel Dennett reveal an unexpected correspondence: when read through the prism of contemporary philosophy of mind, Pessoa’s phenomenon of heteronymity makes apparent the idea, suggested by Dennett, of understanding the self as a centre of narrative gravity, or as competitive narrative centres of gravity. Viewed from the standpoint of Dennett’s polyphonic theory of the self, heteronymity (that is, multiple personality disorder) appears as a reinforced, or boundary, form of the common phenomenon of narrations, which form one’s self by getting constituted around not a single but several imaginary centres.

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