Narrative Identity - created from Mind Map

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The internalized & evolving story of self that a person constructs to find unity & meaning

Shaped by culture

RECONSTRUCT THE PAST & IMAGINE THE FUTURE

"tracing it back to where it all began"

to explain how you have become the person you are becomning

-- A & S

"finding the turning-points"

Psychoanalysis

-- Dan mcA

FREUD's self-analysis at Age 40

Father dies

"monumental", first time done (Harold Bloom MD, Freud Archives)

interpreting his story to understand & explain himself

(1) Has made mistakes but seeks to rectify them and/or come to terms

(2) Redemptive self: early trials but 'redeeming factor' & capacity to overcome

Haunted by his mistakes, esp. medical (like killing a patient with cocaine)

tells the story of this part of N.I. through the dream, Irma's Injection (difficult patient.... but eventually they all realized that her dz was somatic (infection) and not his fault

Childhood of 'narrow-mindedness', poverty & family trauma. Clashes w/ dad

But he has a unique capacity to transcend it