Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative (Critical Psychology) - Softcover

Freeman, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415041988 ISBN 13: 9780415041980

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

Does the past determine the present or the present determine the past? "Rewriting the Self" is an exploration of the process by which people re-interpret the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the "lifes" of autobiographers such as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth, as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy, and literary theory, Mark Freeman aims to shed light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological inquiry more generally.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Freeman is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society andProfessor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,Massachusetts.  His writings include Rewriting the Self: History,Memory, Narrative (Routledge, 1993); Finding the Muse: ASociopsychological Inquiry into the Conditions of Artistic Creativity(Cambridge, 1994); Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward(Oxford, 2010); The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyondthe Self (Oxford, 2014); and numerous articles and chapters on issuesranging from memory and identity to the psychology of art and religion. Winner of the 2010 Theodore R. Sarbin Award in the Society forTheoretical and Philosophical Psychology, he also serves as editor forthe Oxford University Press series "Explorations in NarrativePsychology."

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415041988
• ISBN 13: 9780415041980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264