Power, Intimacy, and the Life Story: Personological Inquiries Into Identity

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Guilford Press, 1988年1月1日 - 336 頁
Who am I? And how do I fit into the world? These are the questions individuals ask themselves to make sense of their lives. Power, Intimacy and the Life Story addresses the human quest for identity. The author reinterprets some of the classic writings in psychology as he shows how each of us constructs a life story in order to meet the identity challenge and create a sense of unity and purpose in our lives. Written for the social scientist, practicing clinician, educated layperson, and student, this compelling study describes how we construct stories that are organized by the two general life themes of power and intimacy. Using the results of questionnaires and interviews with both college students and older adults, the author illustrates an innovative way of understanding human lives in literary terms.
 

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The Problem of Identity
1
Identity and the Life Story
31
Thematic Lines
69
Narrative Complexity
105
Nuclear Episodes
133
Imagoes
176
Ideological Setting
215
Generativity Script
252
Appendix A Demographic Information
280
A Brief Summary of the Intimacy Motive
291
SentenceCompletion Test
300
References
306
Author Index
321
Subject Index
327
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Dan P. McAdams, PhD, Northwestern University

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