Master Narratives, Self-Simulation, and the Healing of the Self
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | RYAN BOLLIER (0000-0002-5595-3517, Film Independent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-167 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2022.44 |
| OpenAlex | W4365148451 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Infiltrated consciousness occurs when a subject's sense of self comes to be strongly and negatively shaped by victimizing master narratives. Consider the stay-at-home dad who has internalized a harmful narrative of traditional masculinity and so feels ashamed because he is not the family's bread winner. One way master narratives infiltrate consciousness is through conditioning self-simulation by assigning a hierarchy of values to different social roles. Further, master narratives confine self-simulation by prescribing certain social roles to an individual and prohibiting others. One common suggestion for counteracting infiltrated consciousness is to transform it through membership in new communities with new master narratives. But how does such healing happen? This essay offers a response. Recent psychological research on constructivist theories of memory outlines a naturalistically plausible mechanism for self-simulation. I argue that this mechanism is implicated in transforming infiltrated consciousness. This clarifies features of our psychological architecture that make the alteration of self-concepts possible
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychology of self · Self · Self-consciousness · Sociology · Computer Science · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory Processes and Influences · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
The Wounded Storyteller
Mental Time Travel
Staying Alive
Remembering the past to imagine the future
The Development of Autobiographical Memory
Episodic Memory
Selves Creating Stories Creating Selves
Personal, Master, and Alternative Narratives
Aftermath
De Se Preferences and Empathy for Future Selves1
Sources of the self
After virtue
Jesus and John Wayne
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |