the self is a kind of endless set of narratives

Submitted by raymond on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 11:29pm

http://www.umass.edu/umassmag/archives/2001/winter2001/athens.html

the cultural theorist Stuart Hall puts it:
"I don’t think that we are whole subjects or whole identities or have a pre-formed experience outside of the process in which that experience is represented. I think we know ourselves when we see ourselves represented. . . . (We) recognize our evolving selves biographically in the stories we tell about ourselves – the self is a kind of endless set of narratives."