story is sensemaking; self is narrativized image

from today’s notes— ‘Story’ is how we make sense of (render legible; reduce) experience. Our memories come back to us as images (in Hillman’s terms: metaphors) and associations; ‘story’ is how we reconstitute and make use of them. The self is made by narrativizing experience, image, sense, memory. A lot of personality problems boil down […]