Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and t...
Fireman, Gary D. / McVay, Ted E. / Flanagan, Owen J. We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but issubsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also ...