“The story of a life continues to

be refigured by all the truthful or

fictive stories a subject tells about

himself or herself. This

refiguration makes this life itself a

cloth woven of stories told.”

It is therefore by means of the

imaginative variations of our own

ego that we attempt to obtain a

narrative understanding of

ourselves...

I am stressing the expression

„narrative identity‟ for what we

call subjectivity is neither an

incoherent series of events nor an

immutable

substantiality, impervious to

evolution....

...the apparent choice between

sheer change and absolute

identity. Between the two lies

narrative identity...

“...we dream in narrative, day-

dream in

narrative, remember, anticipate,

hope, despair, believe, doubt, pla

n, revise, criticize, construct, goss

ip, learn, hate and love by

narrative…"