The Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA.
J Pers. 2009 Jun;77(3):647-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00560.x. Epub 2009 Mar 13.
This study analyzes the self-constructing meanings of an autobiographical episode in the life of one woman told at repeated intervals over 35 years. It demonstrates the ways in which the present constructs the past and shows how autobiographical memory may be used dialogically to create and contrast with current self-constructions, to disavow intolerable aspects of self, and to preserve disused but valued self-representations. Memories, in this sense, operate as texts whose meaning changes as the dialogue within self changes. The meanings of past memories, rather than their contents, are reshaped to hold aspects of a layered, multiple self.
本研究分析了一位女性在 35 年的时间里多次讲述的自传体事件的自我建构意义。它展示了现在如何构建过去，以及自传体记忆如何被对话性地用于创造和对比当前的自我建构，否认自我不可容忍的方面，并保留不再使用但有价值的自我表现。在这个意义上，记忆作为文本运作，其意义随着自我内部的对话而变化。过去记忆的意义（而不是内容）被重塑，以包含多层次、多方面的自我的各个方面。
