Innholdsfortegnelse Rewriting the Self

Innholdsfortegnelse Rewriting the self............................................................................................................. 2 Contents ........................................................................................................................... 3 Rewriting the self. History, memory, narrative - Mark Freeman........................................... 4 Chapter 1 - Rewriting the self............................................................................................ 7 Chapter 2 - The story of a life........................................................................................ 21 Chapter 3 - In the name of the self .................................................................................. 36 Chapter 4 - Living to tell about it .................................................................................... 56 Chapter 5 - Fact and fiction ........................................................................................... 75 Chapter 6 - The primal scenes of selfhood .................................................................... 98 Chapter 7 - Who to become ......................................................................................... 119 Epilogue - Toward a poetics of life history ................................................................. 141 Notes ............................................................................................................................ 147 1 REWRITING THE SELF..................................................................................... 147 2 THE STORY OF A LIFE ..................................................................................... 147 3 IN THE NAME OF THE SELF............................................................................ 148 4 LIVING TO TELL ABOUT IT ............................................................................ 148 5 FACT AND FICTION.......................................................................................... 148 6 THE PRIMAL SCENES OF SELFHOOD........................................................... 149 7 WHO TO BECOME............................................................................................. 149 EPILOGUE.............................................................................................................. 149 References.................................................................................................................... 150 Name index .................................................................................................................. 155 Subject index................................................................................................................ 157 Note om layout - sidetall øverst - fotnoter samlet i egen seksjon i slutten av boka (notes). Rewriting the self Rewriting the Self explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and literary theory, the book sheds light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological enquiry more generally. Mark Freeman draws upon selected, mainly autobiographical, literary texts in order to examine concretely the process of rewriting the self. Among the issues addressed are the relationship of rewriting the self to the concept of development, the place of language in the construction of selfhood, the difference between living and telling about it, the problem of facts in life history narrative, the significance of the unconscious in interpreting the personal past, and the freedom of the narrative imagination. Rewriting the Self deals with important but difficult ideas in an accessible and engaging way. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and related disciplines, as well as to readers, academic and otherwise, interested in the dynamics of self-understanding. Mark Freeman is Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he serves as Assistant Academic Dean. He has written extensively on the relationship of hermeneutic philosophy to psychological theory and method, on the development of the self, and on the psychology of art. Critical Psychology Series editors John Broughton Columbia University David Ingleby Vakgroep Ontwikkeling en Socialisatie, Utrecht Valerie Walkerdine University of Central England at Birmingham Since the 1960s there has been widespread disaffection with traditional approaches in psychology, and talk of a `crisis' has been endemic. At the same time, psychology has encountered influential contemporary movements such as feminism, neo-marxisin, post-structuralism, and post-modernism. In this climate, various forms of'critical psychology' have developed vigorously. Unfortunately, such work — drawing as it does on unfamiliar intellectual traditions — is often difficult to assimilate. The aim of the Critical Psycho-logy series is to make this exciting new body of work readily accessible to students and teachers of psychology, as well as presenting the more psychological aspects of this work to a wider social scientific audience. Specially commissioned works from leading critical writers will demonstrate the relevance of their new approaches to a wide range of current social issues. Titles in the series include The crisis in modern social psychology And how to end it lan Parker The psychology of the female body Jane M. Ussher Significant differences Feminism in psychology Corinne Squire The mastery of reason Cognitive development and the production of rationality Valerie Walkerdine Child care and the psychology of development Elly Singer Contents Acknowledgments 1 Rewriting the self To be mindful of life Interpretation and selfhood Questions The skeptical challenge Thinking beyond skepticism The cast of characters 2 The story of a life History, memory, narrative `Origins' To cast out one's demons Living in the material world Knowledge and action Retrospects and prospects Recollection and development 3 In the name of the self The danger of writing Language, thought, and reality Whose words do we speak and write? Origin/ality Authorship and selfhood To build a world Looking toward the future, in anticipation 4 Living to tell about it Pure imagination Face to face The start of something big Narrative delusion and the (meta)historical imagination The banality of existence Accidents will happen Narrative desire Fact and fiction What are the facts of history? Presence and absence The manifest text In the aftermath The problem of the text To know thyself The primal scenes of selfhood 149 Secrecy and secrets 149 Double trouble 153 Lingering despair, appearances notwithstanding 155 The dead end of rationality 158 On narrative plausibility 161 Reconstruction, restoration, and the dialectic of development 165 Primal scenes 177 Who to become In the wilderness of the self 185 The seeds of new life 191 Meaning, morality, and the social construction of narrative 196 Apostasy and authority 202 A tale of two worlds 210 The vertigo of development 214 Epilogue: Toward a poetics of life history 222 Notes 233 References 237 Name index 245 Subject index 248 Rewriting the self. History, memory, narrative - Mark Freeman London and New York First published in 1993 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Reprinted 1995 © 1993 Mark Freeman Typeset in Bembo by Michael Mepham, Frome, Somerset Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0—415—04197—X (hbk) ISBN 0-415-04198-8 (pbk) Sometimes when you look back at certain events, the reason th happened the way they did seems pretty obvious. Yet when sometl is actually happening and you're right in the middle of it, you can't s, to get a handle on what's going on. (Larry Bird 1989: [I]n general people experience their present naively, as it were, wit} being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to themselves at a distance from it — the present, that is to say, must I become past — before it can yield points of vantage from which to ju the future. (Sigmund Freud 192 ((5)) ((6)) ((7)) 90 94 96 98 103 112 112 120 122 130 137 145 Acknowledgments This book has taken a good long while to write and is the product of many influences. At the University of Chicago, where I began to reflect on the issues at hand, I wish to thank especially Bert Cohler, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jacob Getzels, Peter Homans, Paul Ricoeur, Rick Shweder, David Tracy, and Marvin Zonis, each of whom, either as mentors or as exemplary teachers, served to catalyze my own intellectual desires. I also want to thank my friends at Chicago, especially Reed Larson, Pat Lorek,

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