Abstract We refer to the concept of the hidden story as a story about one’s own life, internalized in the mind and knowable “indirectly”, through a monologue and inference, using linguistic and literary theory tools. The aim of the study was to determine whether the hidden story thus reconstructed would be stable in time. A twenty-one-year-old woman was asked to deliver a ten-minute monologue on her upbringing. After two years the test was repeated. Both monologues were transcribed, analyzed and interpreted to isolate a hidden story from each of them. We reconstructed the earlier and later stories. Two threads: “rebellion” and “heritage” appeared in both stories, but they combined to form a more coherent narrative only in the later one. The “closeness with parents” thread, present in the earlier story, was replaced with the “marital love” thread. The character and pattern of the changes illustrate changes that result from developmental factors.

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隐藏故事的稳定性

摘要 我们将隐藏故事的概念称为关于自己生活的故事，通过独白和推理，使用语言和文学理论工具，内化在头脑中并“间接”可知。研究的目的是确定这样重建的隐藏故事是否会及时稳定。一位 21 岁的女性被要求就她的成长经历进行 10 分钟的独白。两年后，再次进行测试。两个独白都被转录、分析和解释，以从他们每个人中分离出一个隐藏的故事。我们重建了之前和之后的故事。两条线索：“反叛”和“遗产”在两个故事中都出现过，但只有在后一个故事中，它们结合起来才形成了更加连贯的叙事。早先故事中出现的“亲近父母”的话题被“婚姻爱情”的话题所取代。