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Letters
Letters
A Story of Self • ‘Socrates is Dead’ Claims God • Bell’s Notation Note • Kazez Responds • Research Responsibilities • Betty Wrong • I Am Not That I Am • Weight On Your Mind • Good and Evol
A Story of Self
DEAR EDITOR: The article ‘Don Quixote and the Narrative Self’ in Issue 60 rings big bells with me. One of the signs of recovery following a brief depressive illness a few years ago was the ‘reappearance’ of my narrator. As I walked along the street one day I found myself acknowledging that I was walking along a street, going somewhere, for some purpose (I think I was heading for the garden centre). I was suddenly aware of myself in the context of my lived life, of my actions continuing in time and space (mundane though they were at that moment), and with a returning sense of self that had been missing for weeks.
The awareness of self was connected to the action of walking; of progress towards or intention to do something.
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