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Identity Narratives

Summary/Abstract: The present paper discusses the relationship connecting memory, narrative and identity, and identifies the ways these are articulated.Far from being static, personal identity appears as an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. As a crucial concept in narrative psychology, personal identity rests on the premise that self narration operates as an alternative means of one’s self-knowledge. Self awareness is often shaped as a story, a narrative; it is such stories that give us our bearings and distinguish us from others. Life stories lie at the foundation of human identity and define the self, while always occurring within a given social and cultural context.In narrative psychology, memory, personal history and narrative are intimately related, and generate the “homo narrativus,” an individual that builds their identity through narratives. Such assumptions fall within the spheres of psychology, philosophy, sociology and narratology.

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