ABSTRACT
This chapter is a reflection on the difficulties of remembering and narrating when the concepts that framed past experience have lost their meaning. Stories become difficult to tell when the frame of reference in which experiences were originally placed has evaporated. This is more than an emotional problem; it is a cognitive one. A paradigm shift makes this cognitive difficulty extreme. We are familiar with the examples of autobiographical stories of lives that have passed through wars and revolutions, but the same phenomenon arises in the case of less dramatic transitions too.
