Telling to Understand: The Impact of Narrative on Autobiographical Memory

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part One: Narrative Understanding of Oneself

Chapter 2. Autobiographical Memory

            2.1 The Laboratory of Proust

            2.2 What Memory and Autobiographical Narrative Have in Common

            2.3 What is Autobiographical Memory

            2.4 Beyond the Archive Model

Chapter 3. From Autobiographical Memory to Autobiographical Narrative

            3.2 Looking for a Connection

            3.3 Conclusions

Chapter 4. The Autobiographical Narrative

            4.1 The Heaviness of Voice

            4.3 Memory Becomes Autobiographical Narrative

            4.4 Conclusions

Chapter 5. The Narrative Dialogue

            5.1 Research on Expressive Writing

            5.3 How the Other Transforms the Narrative

            5.4 Narration and Conversational Rules

            5.5 Conclusions

Chapter 6. From Play to the Narrative

            6.2 Playing with Consistency and Variability

            6.3 When Play Becomes a Tale

            6.4 Conclusions

Chapter 7. The "Playful" Narrative

            7.2 From Art to Science

            7.3 The Principle of Reducing the Discrepancy

            7.4 Stories as Tools to Solve the Unexpected

            7.5 Conclusions

Part Two: The Narrative Understanding of the Other

Chapter 8. Count and Recount

            8.2 From Gesture Language to Verbal language

            8.3 From Pictographic Representation to Writing

            8.4 Conclusion: The List as a Unifying Genre

Chapter 9. Man of Multiform Ingenuity

            9.2 The Multiplicity of Thoughts

            9.3 Errors of Reasoning

            9.5 The Two Hemispheres

            9.6 Conclusions

Chapter 10. Narration and Fuzzy Logic

            10.1 The Intersection of Sets

            10.2 Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Systems

            10.3 Fuzzy Logic

            10.4 Narrative "Logic" and Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Systems

            10.6 Conclusions

            11.1 Text and Paratext

            11.2 Three ways of Interpreting

            11.4 Interpretative Cooperation

            11.5 Conclusions

Chapter 12. Narrative Understanding in the Digital Age

            12.1 The Text is Dangerous

            12.3 Towards the Disappearance of the Text

            12.4 Towards the Disappearance of the Self

            12.5 Conclusions: A Fourth Way of Interpreting

Chapter 13. Conclusion