ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of narrative in the making of the self. Aristotle's account of poiesis highlights the role that imitation has to play in conjuring narrative in its relation to action as have just seen in Arendt's argument. Paul Ricoeur has focused on the projective role of psyche as an aspect of self-making. The chapter explores the degree to which story telling or narrative forms people, how they self-make, and how this has moral implications for people and those around them. Ricoeur's account of narrative brings together Augustine's account of time and Aristotle's account poiesis. Heterobiographical narrative is when Paul Ricoeur tells himself or anyone else about people, when author detail some events in one's life or their life. Both psychotherapy and mediation tell stories and recount the world as all see and understand it and as everyone currently experience it anyone else.
