L'identità come esperienza narrativa: quale fondamento in Ricoeur?

In this paper, the author considers the narrative experience as a central element in the self-realization (i.e., the construction of personal identity). He analyses Ricœur’s phenomenological hermeneutics of the self and its fundamental theory of narrative identity as a key perspective in such a theorisation. It is shown that Ricœur’s notion of narrative identity is strongly philosophically founded, not in a weak aesthetic way, nor ‘psychologically’ (even if is deeply connected to the aesthetic experience and theory, and to Freud’s metapsychology).