Abstract

I am grateful for the responses from Serife Tekin and James Phillips to my paper (Lumsden 2013), for they allow me to clarify my position. Tekin (2013) accurately characterizes me as attempting to salvage the value of narrative theory without accepting the more stringent demands that have been required or implied, notably the necessity for personhood of a whole life narrative. She notes that I attempt to provide an alternative view of the unity of a person, to the degree that there is that unity, by seeing a self as a bundle of narrative threads. She acknowledges my suggestion that the bundling involves connections at both conscious and unconscious levels. She says we are left with a problem, the ..