Description
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 Neisser's 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 autobiographical 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 alleged 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.
Chapter
2 Literary and psychological models of the self
4 Composing protoselves through improvisation
3. Autobiographical remembering
4. Composing protoselves through improvisation
5 Mind, text, and society: Self-memory in social context
A social constructionist view of the remembered self
The boundaries of self-narrative
Personal memory as a relational resource
Scenarios and narration as social practice
Psychology and self-memory revisited
6 Personal identity and autobiographical recall
Construction and recollection
Personal science and personal memories
Personal structure, style, and recall
The impact of autobiographical recollections
7 Constructing narrative, emotion, and self in parent-child conversations about the past
Narrative structure in parent-child conversations about the past
Emotional content of parent-child conversations about the past
Narrative, emotion, and the remembered self
8 Narrative practices: Their role in socialization and self construction
Socialization through discourse
Personal storytelling in South Baltimore
Personal storytelling practices
Telling stories around the child
Telling stories about the child
Telling stories with the child
Implications for socialization and self-construction
9 Comments on children's self-narratives
Emotionality and young children's self-concepts
The role of personal narratives in the development of young children's self-concepts
10 Is memory self-serving ?
A theory of personal recall
Testing theories of depression through retrospection
The functions of personal recall
The impact of goals on the form of recall
Ignoring and avoiding the past
Writing about traumatic episodes in either the third or the first person
Ignoring the past while predicting the future
Evaluating the accuracy of recollections
12 The remembered self and the enacted self
Problems with the tagging model
An alternative interpretation
Sources of bias in memory
The remembered self and the enacted self
13 The authenticity and utility of memories
Psychoanalysis and sexual abuse
What constitutes accuracy? Neisser's Pearl Harbor memory
Ross's analysis of systematic inaccuracy
Memory distortion in autobiography: Nabokov's roommate
Accuracy and distortion in diary studies
14 The remembered self in amnesics
What do anterograde amnesics remember about their lives?
Islands of preserved memory
15 Perception is to self as memory is to selves
Perceiving the Self in the Environment
From the perceived self to remembered selves
The Remembering Self
：Construction and Accuracy in the Self-Narrative
( Emory Symposia in Cognition )
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