narrative self

“…silent walking seemed to improve my memory. …You go out into the wild and you ‘discover who you are’, you ‘establish your individual voice,’ or ‘your authentic identity’. One of the definitions of identify or selfhood being explored at present in both philosophy and psychiatry is the idea that the ability to construct a coherent narrative of one’s own life circumscribes identity-to be an individual is to own a narrative self.”-from: A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland