Telling to Understand

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part One: Narrative Understanding of Oneself

Chapter 2. Autobiographical Memory
2.1 The Laboratory of Proust
2.2 What Memory and Autobiographical Narrative Have in Common
2.3 What is Autobiographical Memory
2.4 Beyond the Archive Model
2.5 Conclusions

Chapter 3. From Autobiographical Memory to Autobiographical Narrative
3.1 That "Mysterious" Jump From Memory to Narrative
3.2 Looking for a Connection
3.3 Conclusions

Chapter 4. The Autobiographical Narrative
4.1 The Heaviness of Voice
4.2 Memory Becomes Voice
4.3 Memory Becomes Autobiographical Narrative
4.4 Conclusions

Chapter 5. The Narrative Dialogue
5.1 Research on Expressive Writing
5.2 How to Narrate Changes the Memory
5.3 How the Other Transforms the Narrative
5.4 Narration and Conversational Rules
5.5 Conclusions

Chapter 6. From Play to the Narrative
6.1 At the Beginning of Knowledge: The Pleasure of Understanding the Unexpected
6.2 Playing with Consistency and Variability
6.3 When Play Becomes a Tale
6.4 Conclusions

Chapter 7. The "Playful" Narrative
7.1 Beauty Between Rules and Deviations
7.2 From Art to Science
7.3 The Principle of Reducing the Discrepancy
7.4 Stories as Tools to Solve the Unexpected
7.5 Conclusions

Part Two: The Narrative Understanding of the Other

Chapter 8. Count and Recount
8.1 Reading, Writing, Counting
8.2 From Gesture Language to Verbal language
8.3 From Pictographic Representation to Writing
8.4 Conclusion: The List as a Unifying Genre

Chapter 9. Man of Multiform Ingenuity
9.1 Myth and Thought