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(self) concept
from McAdams’s perspective, when we’re talking about identity, whether our beliefs about ourselves are true or not is pretty much irrelevant. This is why McAdams brilliantly invokes the concept of a myth when talking about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves—like ancient myths, they’re coherent narratives that may or may not be true. So h
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Why isn’t the moral of this story simply that we were wrong initially about the nature of the self—that it is not an essential core, subject, agent, etc., but instead this high-level conceptual construction?
Jay L. Garfield • Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
