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 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."
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