Understanding narratives and understanding minds: insights from the second person perspective
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rel.v111i1.99767Resumo
This paper argues that our capacity to understand narratives and our abilities to
understand each other’s minds are intertwined. To show the connection between
these two abilities, in the first place I clarify what I mean by narration, and I present the central theses of the second-person perspective of psychological understanding as developed in Pérez and Gomila (2022). Then, I show how narrative comprehension is linked with the ability to understand minds. Finally, I discuss why this entanglement of narratives and psychological concepts leads us to simultaneously adopt multiple perspectives in the comprehension of every narrative, and how the second-person perspective can shed some light in narrative understanding through a couple of examples from the arts.
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