Narrative and Consciousness

Literature, Psychology and the Brain
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-516172-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists have taken an interest in the stories people create to understand themselves, their past, and the world around them. The research presented in this volume should appeal to researchers enmeshed in these problems, as well as the general reader with an interest in the philosophical problem of what consciousness is and how it functions in the everyday world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fireman, Gary D.

Gingold, Robert J.

McVay, Ted E.

Flanagan, Owen J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Bewusstseinszustände

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 self

- Part II: Narrative and the 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 Lolita

- Part 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

Über Autor(innen)

Fireman, Gary D. (Associate Professor of Psychology, Texas Tech University, USA) / McVay, Ted E. (Associate Professor of Spanish, Texas Tech University, USA) / Flanagan, Owen J. (James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, USA)