PSYB30H3 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
Document Summary
The role of narrative in personality psychology and functioning. As people we are historians and history simultaneously. Book illustrates important role narrative has to play in living a purposeful life and in psychological functioning and adjustment. Mcadams beliefs that life story approach offers a third tear in our understanding of persons. First tear is level of personality traits, second is motivational adaptations. Formation of life story how various elements of life story are acquired as we move from infancy to adolescence. Bakn, psychologist who spent most of time at york and wrote about the duality of human existence. Argued that for all varieties that make up human existence two themes come out of things human, things related to agency and communion. Agency: formation of separations between self and the world, striving that self has to become increasingly expansive and elevated.
