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- Jan 23, 2019
Piece I was writing, can't get to a real coherent conclusion. but still counts as a random personal thought
To describe the mechanics of how Chris Chan's internal consciousness works would be nearly impossible. He lives in a self-created state of mind that consists of his (re)constructed past, perceived present, and imagined future. His inner narrative is a story, it has characters, episodes, sagas, imagery, settings, plots, and themes. It often follows the traditional model of a story. There is a beginning , a middle, and an end.
His narrative identity is a multitude of layers of personalities, related to the perceived reality of a situation. It is a framework and encompasses the internalized, evolving story of himself and how he sees reality or rather how he wants to see reality.
Different ways of interpreting and narrating important changes or situations, correlate with different stages of his personal development on different aspects of everyday life . This can be seen as the link between his state of mind and the influences his narrative identity has on his psychological well-being.
Chris’s main approach in perceiving his reality in relationship to the outside world is an attempt to capture the specific, personal, and highly contextualized elements of his own individual storyline. He tries to classify narratives, determine associations, draw cause-and-effect relationships, and test and validate hypotheses he has on other people and himself.
Chris knows continuity and some amount of coherence is always necessary in a narrative, otherwise it would be “incomprehensible” for others to understand. Coherence is one of the primary structural elements of all narratives. He doesn’t care to much on temporal coherence as in the telling of a story in a clear,defined chronological way. Why, when or how something happens is not always of the importance in his communications. Causal coherence or drawing cause-and-effect relationships between events and their effect on his emotional,- and psychological state of mind are often lost in the process or totally fabricated to fit the motive. Chris tries to manipulate his own narrative in this way to give him a sense of satisfaction while at the same time avoiding any real obstacles that would give him a feeling of discomfort.
The general extent to which coherence is present or absent in his narrative is not even related to the importance he gives to the outcome or how he expect things to turn out.
The irony of it all, is that he doesn’t understand that too much coherence, polishing and detail makes the narrative hard to believe, as though it too-neatly ties together the complexity of life as we understand it but he doesn’t
To describe the mechanics of how Chris Chan's internal consciousness works would be nearly impossible. He lives in a self-created state of mind that consists of his (re)constructed past, perceived present, and imagined future. His inner narrative is a story, it has characters, episodes, sagas, imagery, settings, plots, and themes. It often follows the traditional model of a story. There is a beginning , a middle, and an end.
His narrative identity is a multitude of layers of personalities, related to the perceived reality of a situation. It is a framework and encompasses the internalized, evolving story of himself and how he sees reality or rather how he wants to see reality.
Different ways of interpreting and narrating important changes or situations, correlate with different stages of his personal development on different aspects of everyday life . This can be seen as the link between his state of mind and the influences his narrative identity has on his psychological well-being.
Chris’s main approach in perceiving his reality in relationship to the outside world is an attempt to capture the specific, personal, and highly contextualized elements of his own individual storyline. He tries to classify narratives, determine associations, draw cause-and-effect relationships, and test and validate hypotheses he has on other people and himself.
Chris knows continuity and some amount of coherence is always necessary in a narrative, otherwise it would be “incomprehensible” for others to understand. Coherence is one of the primary structural elements of all narratives. He doesn’t care to much on temporal coherence as in the telling of a story in a clear,defined chronological way. Why, when or how something happens is not always of the importance in his communications. Causal coherence or drawing cause-and-effect relationships between events and their effect on his emotional,- and psychological state of mind are often lost in the process or totally fabricated to fit the motive. Chris tries to manipulate his own narrative in this way to give him a sense of satisfaction while at the same time avoiding any real obstacles that would give him a feeling of discomfort.
The general extent to which coherence is present or absent in his narrative is not even related to the importance he gives to the outcome or how he expect things to turn out.
The irony of it all, is that he doesn’t understand that too much coherence, polishing and detail makes the narrative hard to believe, as though it too-neatly ties together the complexity of life as we understand it but he doesn’t
