The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative

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Ulric Neisser, Robyn Fivush
Cambridge University Press, 28.10.1994 - 301 Seiten
This book brings a surprisingly wide range of intellectual disciplines to bear on the self-narrative and the self. The same ecological/cognitive approach that successfully organized Ulric Neisserts earlier volume on The Perceived Self, now relates ideas from the experimental, developmental, and clinical study of memory to insights from post-modernism and literature. Although auto- biographical remembering is an essential way of giving meaning to our lives, the memories we construct are never fully consistent and often simply wrong. In the first chapter, Neisser considers the so- called false memory syndrome in this context; other contributors discuss the effects of amnesia, the development of remembering in childhood, the social construction of memory and its allege self- servingness, and the contrast between literary and psychological models of the self. Jerome Bruner, Peggy Miller, Alan Baddeley, Kenneth Gergen and Daniel Albright are among the contributors to this unusual synthesis.
 

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Literary and psychological models of the self
19
The remembered self
41
Composing protoselves through improvisation 555
55
Selfmemory in social context
78
Personal identity and autobiographical recall
105
Constructing narrative emotion and self
136
Their role in socialization
158
Comments on childrens selfnarratives
180
Creative remembering
205
The remembered self and the enacted self
236
The authenticity and utility of memories
243
Perception is to self as memory is to selves
278
Name index
293
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