ABSTRACT
As we have already stressed in the Introduction, narratology describes a finite number of constituents and a finite number of variants of these constituents concerning the composition of narratives. Each constituent, or their versions, can be reliably identified at the level of the text. At the same time meanings at the level of experience can be associated with the constituents of narrative thus defined. Narrative contains a finite number of structural or compositional ‘slots’ that can be filled with an equally finite number of psychologically meaningful contents, while the surface text may show infinite variety. This is what narrative psychological content analysis attempts to make the most of. Without attempting to be exhaustive, in what follows we will take a look one by one at the narrative components that can be equipped with psychological meaning.
