Rewriting the Self

by Freeman, Mark Philip

• ISBN13: 9780415041980
• ISBN10: 0415041988
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Rewriting the self	p. 1
To be mindful of life	p. 1
Interpretation and selfhood	p. 3
Questions	p. 6
The skeptical challenge	p. 10
Thinking beyond skepticism	p. 13
The cast of characters	p. 18
The story of a life	p. 25
History, memory, narrative	p. 25
'Origins'	p. 33
To cast out one's demons	p. 36
Living in the material world	p. 38
Knowledge and action	p. 41
Retrospects and prospects	p. 43
Recollection and development	p. 46
In the name of the self	p. 50
The danger of writing	p. 50
Language, thought, and reality	p. 53
Whose words do we speak and write?	p. 58
Origin/ality	p. 63
Authorship and selfhood	p. 67
To build a world	p. 70
Looking toward the future, in anticipation	p. 78
Living to tell about it	p. 81
Pure imagination	p. 81
Face to face	p. 85
The start of something big	p. 90
Narrative delusion and the (meta)historical imagination	p. 94
The banality of existence	p. 96
Accidents will happen	p. 98
Narrative desire	p. 103
Fact and fiction	p. 112
What are the facts of history?	p. 112
Presence and absence	p. 120
The manifest text	p. 122
In the aftermath	p. 130
The problem of the text	p. 137
To know thyself	p. 145
The primal scenes of selfhood	p. 149
Secrecy and secrets	p. 149
Double trouble	p. 153
Lingering despair, appearances notwithstanding	p. 155
The dead end of rationality	p. 158
On narrative plausibility	p. 161
Reconstruction, restoration, and the dialectic of development	p. 165
Primal scenes	p. 177
Who to become	p. 185
In the wilderness of the self	p. 185
The seeds of new life	p. 191
Meaning, morality, and the social construction of narrative	p. 196
Apostasy and authority	p. 202
A tale of two worlds	p. 210
The vertigo of development	p. 214
Epilogue: Toward a poetics of life history	p. 222
Notes	p. 233
References	p. 237
Name index	p. 245
Subject index	p. 248
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