The mess inside : narrative, emotion, and the mind / Peter Goldie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldie, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Emotions.

Mind and body.

Philosophy of mind.

Self-consciousness (Awareness).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives in narrative terms. He draws on work in philosophy, psychology history, and literature, and argues that having a narrative sense of self is at the heart of what it is to understand ourselves.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""1. Narrative Thinking""; ""Introduction: Finding the Right Place for Narrative in Our Lives""; ""What a Narrative Is""; ""Narrative Structure""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. Narrative Thinking about One's Past""; ""Introduction: Internal and External Perspectives in Narrative Thinking""; ""Dramatic Irony""; ""As We Grow Up: Diverging Perspectives in Literature and in Real Life""; ""Free Indirect Style and the Narrator�s External Perspective""; ""Autobiographical Narrative Thinking and the Problem of the Audience""

""Autobiographical Memory and General Events""""Free Indirect Style and Memory""; ""Construction not Retrieval""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Grief: A Case Study""; ""Introduction: The Narratable Process of Grief""; ""Grief is Not a Kind of Mental State or Event""; ""Grief is a Kind of Process""; ""The Narrative of a Grieving: Free Indirect Style and General Events""; ""Two Narrative Accounts of Grief""; ""Traumatic Experience and the Desire for Emotional Closure""; ""Telling to Others""; ""Showing to Others""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Narrative Thinking about One's Future""

""Introduction: Imagination and Emotion as Guides in Practical Reason""""Imagination, Emotion, and Branching Possibilities""; ""Regret, and Learning from Our Mistakes""; ""Planning, Policies, and Character""; ""Learning to See and to Feel""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. Self-forgiveness: A Case Study""; ""Introduction: The Paradoxical Appearance of Self-forgiveness""; ""Forgiveness of Others""; ""The Relation between Forgiveness of Others and Self-forgiveness""; ""Why, and in What Circumstances, Do We Need Self-forgiveness?""; ""The Norms of Self-forgiveness and the Narrative Sense of Self""

""Pardon and Self-forgiveness""""Conclusion""; ""6. The Narrative Sense of Self""; ""Introduction: A Metaphysically 'Light'? Sense of Self""; ""The Narrative Sense of Self""; ""The Narrative Sense of Self, Personal Identity, and Survival""; ""The Stable Self and Narrative Self-constitution""; ""The Stable Self and Empathic Access""; ""The Stable Self and its Epistemic Difficulties""; ""The Mistaken Ideal of the Stable Self""; ""Making up Our Minds and Breakdowns in Narrativity""; ""Conclusion""; ""7. Narrative, Truth, Life, and Fiction""

""Introduction: Truth and Objectivity and the Dangers of our Fictionalizing Tendencies""""The Possibility of Truth in Narrative""; ""The Possibility of Objectivity in Narrative""; ""The First Fictionalizing Tendency: We Plot Out Our Lives""; ""The Second Fictionalizing Tendency: Finding Agency in the World Where It Is Not""; ""The Third Fictionalizing Tendency: Narrative Thread and the Desire for Closure""; ""The Fourth Fictionalizing Tendency: Genre and Character""; ""A Summary and a Speculation""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 13, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-870766-5

1-283-65832-1

0-19-163153-1

OCLC:

922971274