The narrative view of selfhood has, a further purpose to connect ipseity with alterity. |
Identity in these contemporary worlds, writes Bean and Moni, is constructed through the consumption of goods with selfhood vested in things. |
I assume that she is invoking the liberal, atomistic concept of selfhood which posits a self prior to social relations. |
Moreover, a polyphonic style resists univocal concepts of selfhood, which posit the self as knowable and unified. |
Through his constant narrativizing, Ambrose constructs a portrait of himself as a fiction and his narratives constitute his selfhood. |
It's like a hothouse, in whose controlled climate people can develop their selfhood to the full. |