ABSTRACT
Dennett (1992) has proposed the metaphor of the self as a ‘centre of narrative gravity’ and has drawn attention to the ‘internalized conversations’ we have with ourselves that are processed through situationally reactive and fleeting coalitions of ‘neural networks’. This process, through which sensory inputs are transformed into language, he refers to as the workings of a ‘Joycean machine’ that produces streams of linguistic consciousness. These two ideas together with the idea of narrative or ‘storied’ landscapes form the basis for a discussion about what I mean by the ‘narrative construction and performance of identity’.
