1. Talking about Ourselves: The Rules of the Game
The Case against Narrative Identity
Truth or Consequences on Oprah
The Narrative Identity System
Narrative Rules, Identity Rules
2. Autobiographical Consciousness: Body, Brain, Self, and Narrative
Antonio Damasio and the "Movie-in-the-Brain"
3. Identity Work: People Making Stories
Looking at Vermeer: "Inner" Lives and "Outer" Forces
The Pressure of Circumstances, the Power of Story
4. Living Autobiographically
"Arbitrage": Andre Aciman and "Remembering Remembering"