The invented self: Who do you think you are?

By James Carroll | Monday, May 24, 2010 | The Boston Globe

“…Every person creates a life story, arranging past experience in narrative form with beginning, middle, and end. Such ordering of existential disorder is the work of memory, and is essential to self awareness; indeed, the narrative is the soul of selfhood. But memory is imprecise, and must be measured against other accounts. Falsifying matters of official record crosses a bright line — both of ethics and foolishness. …”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/05/24/who_do_you_think_you_are?mode=PF

 

 

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