The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion, and the Mind

by Peter Goldie

Book Overview

Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. The Mess Inside engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as having...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198707665
• ISBN13: 9780198707660
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"