Re: Bruner's list - narrative

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 1 May 1996 21:27:38 -0400

Thanks to Jay for arguing against the privileging of narrative
in the discursive construction of selves. I totally agree that
the selves constructed conversationally by way of
role & status relations/struggles get inscribed more deeply in
subjectivity than retrospective sense-making - i.e., narrativizing,
which is done out of desire to be some kind of one (which is motivated
I assume by some degree of perpetual dissatisfaction with the
realized self?).
- Judy

Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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