Just loose associating here, but another variant of this idea is McAdams’ narrative theory, in which a crisis point in a person’s life induces fresh disorder, and can bifurcate along two potential paths toward a new order, the one being a “contaminated” narrative (a more negative story, like “I’m a failure because of what happened), the other being “redemptive” (a more positive story, as in “I’ve learned important things and grown as a person because of what happened”).
More broadly, chaos theory would be another way of reframing it conceptually.
I read this book by McAdams some years ago: The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by.
In terms of articles, there’s this from Current Directions in Psychological Science: Narrative Identity (Dan P. McAdams and Kate C. McLean, 2015)
More incidentally, I did notice a reference to McAdams within this paper in Psychological Review co-authored by Peterson in 2011, titled Psychological Entropy: A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty-Related Anxiety.
Fantastic. Ego dissolution is also a huge factor, as the ego seems to act as a gatekeeper for noise. Or in other words it "orders" incoming data through it's own structure, hindering the ascent to criticality or mitigating how much the overall frame is broken by an insight. I wonder if there is a relationship between ego-attachment and propensity for insight in the scientific literarure.
Thanks and look forward to the integration with myths.
Thanks, that was a good conceptual dive.
Just loose associating here, but another variant of this idea is McAdams’ narrative theory, in which a crisis point in a person’s life induces fresh disorder, and can bifurcate along two potential paths toward a new order, the one being a “contaminated” narrative (a more negative story, like “I’m a failure because of what happened), the other being “redemptive” (a more positive story, as in “I’ve learned important things and grown as a person because of what happened”).
More broadly, chaos theory would be another way of reframing it conceptually.
Cool, is there a particular paper/book that you think best details McAdams' idea?
And yep, I think I'll be discussing chaos/dynamical systems theory in a later essay in this series.
I read this book by McAdams some years ago: The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by.
In terms of articles, there’s this from Current Directions in Psychological Science: Narrative Identity (Dan P. McAdams and Kate C. McLean, 2015)
More incidentally, I did notice a reference to McAdams within this paper in Psychological Review co-authored by Peterson in 2011, titled Psychological Entropy: A Framework for Understanding Uncertainty-Related Anxiety.
Fantastic. Ego dissolution is also a huge factor, as the ego seems to act as a gatekeeper for noise. Or in other words it "orders" incoming data through it's own structure, hindering the ascent to criticality or mitigating how much the overall frame is broken by an insight. I wonder if there is a relationship between ego-attachment and propensity for insight in the scientific literarure.
Thanks and look forward to the integration with myths.