The Realizations of the Self by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319947006
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

AA: I would like to point out that, for Ricoeur , to be ‘storied,’ or (better yet) to be ‘storiable,’ does not mean simply and only that one has a single, fixed story. To be a storied-storiable being implies that one is always in the state of accomplishing oneself—and thus one is always in an unaccomplished, never-ending story—an endless story. The open-endedness is retroactive, because, depending on the actions and decisions one makes from time to time, the whole previous story can be, at least partially, changed. It would be unchangeable only if the story had a definite meaning, i.e., an end. By not having such a meaning, the story is mutable. To put it short: does the mutable nature of the story in any way challenge your view?

GS: What is the word ‘story’ doing? It seems somehow demeaning—although I know it isn’t intended that way. I’m living my life. I have certain projects, but I don’t think I know myself at all well, and I don’t think my life has any meaning at all! Sometimes I realize I misunderstood someone last week—or last year. Sometimes I realize I was wrong about why I felt what I felt. Sometimes, like Tigger, I think I know what I want and find out that I’m wrong. Usually, though, I find I have no idea why the mood of the day is what it is. I usually don’t know why I feel what I feel when I feel gloomy—like Antonio at the beginning of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice:

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:

It wearies me; you say it wearies you;

But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,

What stuff ‘tis made of, whereof it is born,

I am to learn;

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,

That I have much ado to know myself.

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