The Narrative Self
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Narrative identity theories: a person is unified by the ongoing story they construct—selves are authored and maintained, not found ready-made.
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Asked who you are, you tell a story—origins, turning points, aims. The theory says the story is the glue.
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Narrative answers a different question—what unifies a life—than what makes one body's owner persist. Keep the questions apart.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.