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Narrative identity is the term for the desire for a coherent life narrative
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Narrative identity is widely defined in psychological and philosophical literature as the internal story individuals construct to integrate their life experiences, providing a sense of coherence, unity, and purpose.

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Wikipedia: Narrative identity
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American Psychological Association: Turns in the road : narrative studies of lives in transition
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States identity is a life story told to maintain a narrative perspective.
Routledge: Stories and their limits : narrative approaches to bioethics
1997 · cited by 0
Mentions guidance by the desire for a good story and self-authored life-narratives.
Oxford University Press: Reading our lives : the poetics of growing old
2008 · cited by 0
Quotes that the quest for a story is the quest for a life.
OpenAIRE: The Potential Role of Life-Writing Therapy in Facilitating ‘Recovery’ for Those with Mental Illness
2008 · cited by 0
Notes that people need to build a coherent narrative that explains past experience.
Everything we examined (26)
  1. Wikipedia: Narrative identityreferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: Narrative career counselingreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Book: The Course of Gay and Lesbian Livesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: Reshaping Philosophy: Michael Boylan’s Narrative Fictionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Identity, Narrative and Politicsreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  6. Book: Gender and Work in Capitalist Economiesreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  7. Book: Identity and Storyreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  8. Book: Handbook of Child Psychology, Theoretical Models of Human Developmentreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Wiley: The person : an introduction to the science of personality psychologyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. American Psychological Association: Turns in the road : narrative studies of lives in transitionreferencesupports
  11. Oxford University Press: The story of sexual identity : narrative perspectives on the gay and lesbian life coursereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. J. Wiley & Sons: The person : a new introduction to personality psychologyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Broadview Press: Personal identity and ethics : a brief introductionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Routledge: Stories and their limits : narrative approaches to bioethicsreferencesupports
  15. University of Toronto Press: Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of traumareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Oxford University Press: Reading our lives : the poetics of growing oldreferencesupports
  17. Wikisource: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Jewsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Wikisource: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Philosophyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. Wikisource: The Guide for the Perplexed (Friedlander)/Part Ireferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. نقد ادب معاصر عربی: Analysis of the novel Harb al-Kalb al-Thania based on chaos theorypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OpenAIRE: Adaptation, Intertextuality, and the Endless Deferral of Meaningpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OpenAIRE: German and American Dream Houses: Buildings and Biographies in Gregor Hens's Himmelssturz and Monika Maron's Endmoränenpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. OpenAIRE: The Dismantled Mindset in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Identity Fragmentation, Algorithmic Power, and a Framework for Collective Restorationpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  24. OpenAIRE: The Potential Role of Life-Writing Therapy in Facilitating ‘Recovery’ for Those with Mental Illnesspeer-reviewedsupports
  25. OpenAIRE: From One Medium to the Next: How Comic Books Create Richer Storylinespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  26. OpenAIRE: The Post-Truth Consumer Theorypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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