Identity and story: creating self in narrative

✍ Scribed by Dan P. McAdams, Ruthellen Josselson, Amia Lieblich

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Identity and Story: Creating Self in Narrative, the fourth volume in theseries "The Narrative Study of Lives," Dan P. McAdams, Ruthellen Josselson,and Amia Lieblich bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of creative researchers and theorists to examine the way the stories we tell create our identities. An increasing number of psychologists argue that people living in modern societies give meaning to their lives by constructing and internalizing self-defining stories. The contributors to this volume explore how, beginning in adolescence and young adulthood, our narrative identities become the stories we live by.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 3
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
I. UNITY VERSUS MULTIPLICITY......Page 20
1. MULTIPLICITY AND CONFLICT IN THE DIALOGICAL SELF: A LIFE-NARRATIVE APPROACH......Page 21
2. BETWEEN "BEING" AND "DOING": CONFLICT AND COHERENCE IN THE IDENTITY FORMATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN ORTHODOX JEWS......Page 42
3. THE RAW AND THE BLAND: A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF NARRATIVE IDENTITY......Page 67
5. IDENTITY LIGHT: ENTERTAINMENT STORIES AS A VEHICLE FOR SELF-DEVELOPMEN'T......Page 112
6. SILK FROM SOW'S EARS: COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYDAY SELVES IN EVERYDAY STORIES......Page 129
7. MAKING A GAY IDENTITY: LIFE STORY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COHERENT SELF......Page 151
8. CONSTRUCTING THE "SPRINGBOARD EFFECT" : CAUSAL CONNECTIONS ,SELF-MAKING, AND GROWTH WITHIN THE LIFE STORY......Page 173
9. THE IDENTITIES OF MALCOLM X......Page 198
10. A NARRATIVE EXPLORATION OF PERSONAL IDEOLOGY AND IDENTI'TY......Page 220
11. "WHERE IS THE STORY GOING?" NARRATIVE FORMS AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE LIFE STORIES OF ISRAELI MEN AND WOMEN......Page 246
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 266
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 271
ABOUT THE EDITORS......Page 278