Telling to Understand The Impact of Narrative on Autobiographica
This book illustrates the link that unites memory, thought, and narration, and explores how the act of telling helps people to understand themselves and others. The structure of the book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the aspect of n
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Telling to Understand The Impact of Narrative on Autobiographical Memory
Telling to Understand
Andrea Smorti
Telling to Understand The Impact of Narrative on Autobiographical Memory
Andrea Smorti School of Psychology University of Florence Florence, Italy
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To Ada Fosco Fonzi and Jerome Bruner
Preface
When you write a book, sometimes you chase an idea still undefined with curiosity, trying to discover its full potential; at the end you may at best come to understand what you really wanted to say. Memory is asked to provide the necessary knowledge to undertake this path. Together with the knowledge that memory provides us with, perhaps because of the emotional and personal aspects of writing, even the most disparate memories of one’s own life come to light. This has happened to me. Two types of memories about events that I had often thought about have come to take on a new form and function, but for completely different reasons. The first memory concerned the stutter that afflicted me throughout my childhood and adolescence. The use of breathing, voice control, greater self-confidence, and something else created the end effect of a small miracle. Stuttering, even if it has emotional causes, is a mechanical failure in the articulation of language. It is basically a rumor that one does not “know” how to get out fluidly. As the voice acts as an intermediary between thought and language, stuttering i
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