Title: On fact and fiction?the structure of stories that the brain tells to itself about itself
Abstract: Self-perception as both subject and object enables an observer to become a narrator whose narrative reflects the nature of brain processes and man as a structure of the fiction he tells to himself about himself. Sensory qualities are properties of the interaction between observer and observed and—analogously—new meaning arises from the encounter between ‘reader and text’, ‘narrative and unconscious’, as well as ‘analyst and the analysand's narrative’. Finding oneself in the text is a mimetic process, a trope, and a defence tactic. Narrative texts may become pretexts for self-kindled arousal, and they allow language to emerge unburdened from the task of communication. Narrative fiction is the veiled autobiography of man, the quasi-domesticated beast that constitutes itself through fiction.
Publication Year: 1987
Publication Date: 1987-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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