Some narrative approaches assume a tight relation between narrative and selfhood. They hold that the self-understanding of persons as individuals possessing a set of particular character traits is above all narratively structured for it is constituted by stories persons tell or can tell about their lives. Against this view, it is argued that self-understanding is also characterized by certain non-narrative and invariant mental features. In order to show this, a non-narrative awareness of self-identity over time will be analyzed. It will be argued that this basic form of awareness plays a fundamental role for the possibility of a richer form of self-understanding.

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叙事之外的人的自我理解

一些叙事方法假定叙事与自我之间存在紧密联系。他们认为，作为具有一系列特殊性格特征的个人的自我理解首先是叙事结构，因为它是由人们讲述或可以讲述其生活的故事构成的。与这种观点相反，有人认为自我理解还具有某些非叙事和不变的心理特征。为了表明这一点，将分析随着时间的流逝自我身份的非叙事意识。有人认为，这种基本的意识形式对于更丰富的自我理解的可能性起着根本性的作用。