ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the primary concern being with the way in which one may become aware of being determined and, at the same time, liberated from the very forces responsible. Rather than remaining essentially within the domain of the intrapsychic, however, people will be moving outside, into the world. In this respect, people seek to become more attuned to the social construction of narrative. Simple enough: when the chapter encounters an alien other, whether person or text, and try to understand what is being said, it will have to be interpretively sensitive and flexible and imaginative enough to make it work. In claiming that people understanding of others is in significant part contingent upon people understanding of the worlds they inhabit, the myth of observational neutrality and objectivity traditionally defined is exploded: the faceless observer, sans history, sans prejudice, blessedly open to the otherness of the text could understand absolutely nothing.
