Notion Of Narrative Identity Research Articles

Catholic school identity or Catholic school identities: a necessary journey

In the context of present epochal change, growing secularisation and marketisation have a detrimental effect on specific values and a social consensus, causing these to gradually lose their validity. Catholic-school principals are extraordinarily pressured by dilemmas regarding the Catholicity of their school projects. In accordance with Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity that distinguishes what remains – Identity as Idem and what changes with the passing of time – Identity as Ipse, our study analyses principals’ perceptions about the identity and mission of Catholic schools in the current secular environment. We acknowledge the significant gap between the principals’ viewpoint and their perception regarding families’ reasons to choose Catholic schools. Finally, we reflect on the necessary journey Catholic schools are called to pursue, in order to avoid a fortress model or, the dilution of their Catholic identity.

Young People’s Construction of Identity in the Context of Southern Europe: Finding Leads for Citizenship Education

Identity building can be understood as a fluid process informed by sociocultural aspects and encompassing a strong dimension of othering. Relying on the notion of narrative identity, in this article, we explore the ways in which young people raise and discuss values (human dignity, freedom, solidarity, etc.). To do this, we draw on a set of data collected through deliberative discussions with 378 young people (11 to 20 years old) from four Southern European countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Cyprus. These small group discussions confronted young people about their identification with their country and with Europe. Using thematic and descriptive analysis, we investigate the relationships established by young people with values spontaneously raised by them to build on identity formation. Our results reinforce identity as being constituted in varying forms across the European regions, with relation to values being plural. Yet, there is a strong reference to process values in the four participating countries, such as solidarity and equality, which seem to inform a narrative of an “inclusive Europe”, where community ties matter. Because some level of controversy about values is observed, however, we argue that it could constitute a valuable aspect to inform activities in the field of citizenship education.

From Where Does She Speak?

This article investigates the rise of the feminine creative voice in the age of modernism through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s fictional and nonfictional writings. Her invaluable insights into the long history of women’s subjugation, as well as the fortunes of her contemporaries, provide a framework for an examination of how women established their position as capable members of society in the changing modern milieu. This essay examines Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, and her polemical essay A Room of One’s Own, with a view to demonstrating modern women’s path to creating their artistic identity. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity, I investigate women’s unique way of (re)gaining their confidence and articulating their own voice during the process of self-formation. Following Woolf’s lead, I consider their double status: as both an object of fascination in works of literature and a source of oppression in real life. I also use Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophy of historically effected consciousness (Wirkungsgeschichtes Bewusstsein) to reveal the productive interpretative distance that can help us unravel the complexities of the historical and contingent nature of the development of the female artistic genius. An interrogation of women’s imaginative self-manifestations opens the way to the discovery of crucial truths that pertain to the hermeneutics of female creativity.

Momenty (nie)ciągłości psychologii narracyjnej

The thematic diversity and the way narrative is understood demonstrate the vitality of the concept and the phenomenon of narrative in psychology. This article presents some questions and dilemmas that narrative psychology, which is still a young discipline in search of its scientific identity, pose to researchers. It is not our ambition to resolve these questions; instead, we perceive them as moments of (dis)continuity in the ongoing narrative story and as markers of the directions of research and theoretical considerations. We identify such themes as the distinction between utterance and narrative, the space between author and listener, the directions in which the notion of narrative identity is expanding, and the link between narrative structure and narrative process. The methodological diversity the narrative perspective introduces allows us to pose research questions in a qualitative and quantitative approach.

Moral identity, identification and emotion: a relational and interactive approach

ABSTRACT This paper extends a relational theory of the interconnection between morality, identity, and emotion. We argue that interactional identification with others is central to the development of the moral self, which begins early in childhood as we become the object of the emotional-evaluative attitude of others––becoming a subject to ourselves––while also identifying with others and with the values they embody. This position is extended in contrast to social philosophical ideas of morality and identity, central to which is the notion of narrative identity, and to sociological social psychology where identity theory is taken to be pivotal to understanding the self as driven by the need for verification. In our view, neither of these approaches sufficiently recognise how moral identities are moulded within social relations, interactions, and the identifications these engender. Nor do they take adequate account of the embodied, emotional and intuitional basis of moral identity. We draw on G. H. Mead’s theory of the self and moral socialisation to provide a theory of moral selfhood formed within social relations and interactions, while extending his arguments via insight from C. H. Cooley and M. M. Bakhtin to give greater attention to emotional evaluation.

Феномен идентичности: культурологический анализ произведений П. Рикера и М. Кундеры

Comprehensive study of identity makes observable the very person of researcher and thus switches us from the question ’what?’ onto ‘who?’. Social practices and cultural values find reflection in literature, which serves a perfect source for studying various issues of culture, including the phenomenon of identity. Cultural and philosophical reasonings and ideas of Kundera provide a valuable insight into understanding of multi-faceted nature of identity. Ricoeur, who created the theory of narrative identity, establishes addressing to the literature in terms of the study of human selfhood. Both Kundera and Ricoeur were acutely sensitive towards the issues of modern culture and tried, each in his own way, to solve them — Ricoeur through philosophy, Kundera — by means of the novel, both noting the importance of the fiction in the study of identity. The writer believes that European art and, first and foremost, the novel was instrumental in shaping of man as personality, promoted readers` interest towards the others around and to different views of the world. The notion of narrative identity is, for sure, applicable not only towards the fiction but the culture as a whole, which is woven out of the stories being told and transferred across generations. The works of Ricoeur, on the one hand, act as an important theoretical basis for studying the issue of identity in the work of Kundera and on the other, Kundera`s reflections about the phenomenon of the novel, its structure, functions and poetics may serve a worthy addition and perfect illustration of of Ricoeur`s idea of narrative identity.

Becoming an Embodied Social Self Capable of Relating to Norms: Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity Reconsidered in the Light of Enactivism

In this paper, I argue for a revaluation of Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity in light of what Miriam Kyselo has coined “the body-social problem” in enactivism (Kyselo 2014). It is my contention that while phenomenological perspectives upon the body and the self are considered relevant in enactivism, the hermeneutical, discursive facets are understood as a less essential facet of the self, for instance as the self’s reflexive side, that gives expression to an experiential self (Zahavi 2007: 182-184, 2014: 57-59). Yet, it is in language that the self is addressed by others and that the self reflects upon itself and understands itself. Especially in order to understand aspects of identity which are of importance for the social situation of the self, such as gender, the way we are addressed by others and address ourselves by means of language need to be taken into account.

I'm Not There and Bob Dylan as Blend: An Alternative to Narrative Identity

. In this article I argue that, thanks to its experimental structure that capitalizes on the innate human ability of cognitive blending (Fauconnier and Turner), Todd Haynes's biographical movie I'm Not There (2007) manages to convey a fluid, performative, and anti-essentialist view of personal identity. While the article focuses on the analysis of I'm Not There as conceptual network and on the resulting emergence of Bob Dylan's representation as a blend, it also advances some observations around the notion of identity fostered by the movie. The solution adopted in I'm Not There particularly prompts a comparison with Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity: while Ricoeur theorizes personal identity by resorting to plot as model of temporal and causal continuity, Haynes's operation, by contrast, uses narrative to disrupt temporality and question the assumption that personal identity should be necessarily grounded in coherence. Without being a challenge to Ricoeur, Haynes's use of cognitive blending offers nevertheless an alternative way of making sense of identity, which particularly resonates with political (rather than philosophical) views of selfhood that distance themselves from a concept of identity as “natural” or “authentic.”

The Present of the Past: The Plurality of Competing Narratives in the EU Context

This article intends to review the relationship between European organization and diversity. Europe lives in the legacy of division of nation and ethnicity as its main source dating from the nineteenth century. Although a hyper-real Europe has emerged overcoming its deeply divided meaning, the memory of the dividing past lives in other guises. I intend to look at current lines of division (east and west, north and south, new and old, rich and poor), considered as critical fault lines in European identity formation, turning to the notion of narrative identity, which builds upon philosophical accounts of identity in terms of continuity of self and collective consciousness, thus upon the story of space-time which makes sense for the individual and for the cultural group. The focus is intended to be on the potential for cross-fitting of particular narratives and their embedding in wider narratives (political and cultural, including values), on the potential of imagining of European unity, on uniting chronicle cultures and restructuring the interaction of multiple identities on political as well as on ethical grounds. The approach is linked to perspectives from Judt, Berlin, Delanty, Garcia, Gilbert, Nikolaidis, Trenz and also refers to the so-called ‘narrative turn’ in European studies.

Narrative Identity in Third Party Reproduction: Normative Aspects and Ethical Challenges.

In the last few decades, assisted reproduction has introduced new challenges to the way people conceive and build their families. While the numbers of donor-conceived (DC) individuals have increased worldwide, there are still many controversies concerning access to donor information. Is there a fundamental moral right to know one's genetic background? What does identity in DC families mean? Is there any relationship between identity formation and disclosure of genetic origins? These questions are addressed by analysing core regulatory discourse (ethical recommendations and codes of practice). This analysis shows that the notion of narrative identity is suitable for defining and answering these questions. This review analyses the meaning of resemblance in DC families and the way donors are selected following affinity-ties and discusses disclosure strategies and agreements. As a preliminary conclusion, it could be said that, in the field of third-party reproduction, knowing about the donor conception significantly contributes towards the development of a narrative identity and also serves as a moral basis for the child's right to know.

Quando uma notícia é parte da história: as mídias informativas e a identidade narrativa

Este artigo considera a narratividade jornalística a partir da articulação das notícias e as mídias informativas. Nessa perspectiva, a reflexão desdobra-se em torno da aproximação da noção de identidade narrativa à caracterização das mídias informativas como sujeitos semióticos. Dois exemplos são chamados à discussão: a cobertura do caso Strauss-Khan por portais noticiosos brasileiros e uma edição específica do SuperNotícia, o jornal popular mais vendido do país.

A Matter of Mimesis: Kierkegaard and Ricoeur on Narrative Identity

AbstractThe overall aim in this text is to make clear the relationship between Kierkegaard and Ricoeur with regard to the notion of narrative identity. Thus, I would like to demonstrate that Ricoeur’s idea of mimesis becomes highly present in Kierkegaard’s writings in the very moment one recognizes the importance of the narrative in his authorship and takes the existential implications of these narratives into account. In unfolding some of these implications, I will emphasize the crucial difference between identifying oneself with one’s own history and the individual’s identification with an extraneous story. At the end of my text, I will use Kierkegaard to articulate some conflicts implied in Ricoeur’s idea of the third mimesis and its relation to the notion of an imitatio Christi

Sí mismo para otro. Un debate sobre ética e identidad en Emmanuel Levinas y Paul Ricoeur

A través de la noción de identidad narrativa Paul Ricoeur busca mostrar que una dialéctica entre lo propio y lo ajeno se encuentra presente en toda comprensión. Emmanuel Levinas rechaza esta concepción de la alteridad pues considera que el otro no es reducible a una relación que esté mediada por la reflexión. Considera al otro como un límite de la identidad, no su condición de posibilidad. De esta manera, se analiza la respuesta que ofrece Ricoeur en Sí mismo como otro respecto al estatuto de la alteridad del otro y su relación con la constitución de la identidad del yo.

Memory, Identity and Witness

ABSTRACTDrawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of narrative identity and on his observations concerning testimony in Memory, History, Forgetting, this article explores the operation of memory under two aspects, that of narrative identity and that of witness. This exercise involves some related discussion both of the history/memory problem and of the relationship between written and spoken traces in engaging the past. The methodological focus for the work is a written text of an unusual kind, comprising an extensive and detailed eyewitness account written, forgotten and re-discovered by the same individual – Lionel Curtis – after an intervening period of half a century.

Contrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systems

The article aims at contrasting the autopoietic understanding of an individual and her or his actions as described by Niklas Luhmann with Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity, focusing on people as legal subjects. The article assumes that when legal subjects necessitate ethical engagement and evaluation, the law could cease to deal with problems in a mere legalistic fashion but is allowed the freedom to appeal to norms of justice external to itself as in other natural law theories. Through narrative identity the deeds of role players are to be understood in greater complexity than what a self-referential legal system is comfortable in dealing with.

“I was a stuffed toucan”: Poetic Self-Positioning in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies

This essay addresses identity construction in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies. It argues that references to family, history and other poets indirectly inform the presented self-image and call this process poetic self-positioning. In contrast to earlier psychoanalytical and biographical readings, this interpretation is based on the notion of narrative identity. Additionally, it stresses the relevance of the concept of ‘emotion’ to identity constructions.

ATESTACIÓN Y ATRIBUCIÓN: hacia una ontología del sí mismo como otro en Paul Ricoeur

The following work is intended to deepen in the way of life of the human person by following the steps Paul Ricoeur elaborated for the recovery of the subject after his exaltation and his death. Explores their hermeneutics of itself, with the emphasis on the notion of attestation and in the possibility of making in connection a himself as one that is interpreted as identity narrative in its theoretical dimension and that attests ordered by another dimension through the notion of attribution of remembrance . We can enumerate some philosophical intentions that pass through the work of Paul Ricoeur entitled if same as another. The intention is to dissociate two meanings of the identity and find the bridge that covers the distance of sense that arose between these two poles. The dialectic of selfhood and between ipseidad is contained in the notion of narrative identity. This narrative identity it will enable us the element of analysis of the himself in his interpretative dimension or theoretical.

Narrative identity and sexual difference

This article adheres to the theorizing on narrative as dialogue and communication. It attempts to wed the notions of narrative and narrative identity — the words given to the self in time — to Luce Irigaray’s writings on dialogue and difference. In this frame, identity is regarded as a continuous becoming of an embodied self in relation to another self. The words that are needed in this becoming express the bodily self and touch the other at the same time. By emphasizing narrating as poiesis and creative work of imagination, it is possible to weave Irigaray’s ideas into a notion of narrative identity that moves between gathering the self in terms of emplotting on the one hand, and talking to the other in poetic words and rhythms that can express the identity as bodily and relational, on the other.

Towards a Hermeneutics of Narrative Identity: A Ricoeurian Framework for Exploring Narratives (and Narrators) of Strategy

With notable exceptions, the organization studies literature has tended to exclude a consideration of time from considerations of narrative identity. Building on the work of Ricoeur, and starting from the position that narrative identity is dynamic and rests on a temporal structure, it is suggested that narrative identity emerges from the poetic composition of one or many narrative texts. Drawing upon Ricoeur's conception of narrative identity, an analytic framework is developed and encompasses a dialectic where narrative is described as the path of character, and character as the path of narrative. Narrative identity, in conclusion, is a reflexive consideration of a character's ethical intentions: how a character aims to live a good life, with and for others, in just institutions. The paper suggests that there is value in developing a hermeneutics of narrative identity principally because the notion of narrative identity helps to clarify the relationship between character, plot, and ethics. In addition, ...

Psychopathology and the Narrative Self

Focusing on four cases presented by Lloyd Wells, M.D., this paper addresses the relationship of clinical psychopathology to the philosophical concept of narrative identity. The paper begins with a review of the debate among historians, literary critics, and philosophers over the referential status of narrative identity, that is, whether the narrative self is a fictive structure unrelated to lived life or whether ordinary life is in fact lived narratively. Agreeing with those philosophers who argue for the reference of narrative identity to actual life, the author analyzes the four cases from the perspective of narrative identity to determine what light this philosophical concept sheds on the various psychopathologies. Then, having used the philosophical concept to illuminate psychopathology, he reverses direction and questions what psychopathology has to offer philosophy and its notion of narrative identity. The author argues both that the philosophical concept of narrative identity contributes to our understanding of psychopathology and that psychopathology offers challenges to the philosophical notion of narrative identity.