http://www.imagesforrenewal.com/weekly-post/personal-narrative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=personal-narrative Photography, Poetry, and Prose to Feed the Soul Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.imagesforrenewal.com/weekly-post/personal-narrative/comment-page-1/#comment-82 M.L. Heller Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:55:08 +0000 http://www.imagesforrenewal.com/?p=2020#comment-82 What you've described as internal elements of personal narrative are actually the elemental components of our inner object world. You're correct in that we cannot recount a narrative without these personal references; they are the bedrock of our identity, our selves. The psychoanalyst, Robert Stolorow, wrote eloquently about the myth of individuality. I would add that the intrapsychic (discrete elements of our own subjective minds) are actually intersubjective (the products of relational experience and environmental interaction). What you’ve described as internal elements of personal narrative are actually the elemental components of our inner object world. You’re correct in that we cannot recount a narrative without these personal references; they are the bedrock of our identity, our selves. The psychoanalyst, Robert Stolorow, wrote eloquently about the myth of individuality. I would add that the intrapsychic (discrete elements of our own subjective minds) are actually intersubjective (the products of relational experience and environmental interaction).

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