Publication details
Narativní myšlení a skutečnost
| Title in English | Narrative thinking and reality |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Československá psychologie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | narrativity; story; narrative thinking; narrative construction of reality |
| Description | Meaning of narrativity and story in psychology is the aim of the study. Narrative and paradigmatic modus of thinking is discussed. Narrativity is conceived as a way of knowledge and experience transformation into a story telling. The difference between narrativity and story is explored in psychological context. Story is defines as a means of narrative construction of reality. Modus of narrative thinking is articulated in accordance with Bruner as a story of particular events developing in the course of time, as a meaningful story for the individual, communicable with others, based on genre convention but simultaneously ambiguous and open for different kind of interpretation. Story comprise of troubles, which is its psychologically most distinctive characteristic. We can fully understand story only in context and in its historical background. |