The Storied Nature of Human Life The Life and Work of Theodore R. Sa
This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005). In the first section authors provide a comprehensive account of Sarbin’s life and c
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The Storied Nature of Human Life
Karl E. Scheibe • Frank J. Barrett
The Storied Nature of Human Life The Life and Work of Theodore R. Sarbin
Karl E. Scheibe Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Frank J. Barrett Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-48789-2 ISBN 978-3-319-48790-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48790-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017955054 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo Cover design by Henry Petrides Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The title of this book contains an implicit claim. “The storied nature of human life” implies that it is useful and enlightening to look at human life from a narrative point of view—as if life were bound up with story, with history, with the unfolding of meaningful events, most of them in company with others—along the pathways of the world. To assert that this point of view is natural is, of course, quite arbitrary. The psychologist has, over the 150 years of the discipline, been rather more partial to biology than to story as the linkage of psychology to nature. Nothing is wrong with that claim, even though it also is arbitrary. We are all a nimals—to be sure. But we are animals who have a an inveterate c ompulsion to tell and live storied lives—enriching mere feeding to gastronomy, mere breeding to romance, and mere experience to esthetics. We are, at least on occasion, prepared to
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