Narrative construction of reality – the ways in which we construct narratives in order to bolster our world view (Didion/We tell ourselves stories to survive).
Narratives that support the arc of inspiration –
Insecure people have an ability to upset balance.
Dramatic Pentad: An agent – An act – A scene – a purpose – An agency.
When the ratio between elements becomes unbalanced trouble ensues. Trouble provides the engine of drama.
Everyone has their own version of the narrative
Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity
The Narrative Construction of Reality by Jerome Bruner
Paradox in the context of complex emotional clarity.
Integrity: Courage to tell the truth as you see it.
Promethean Power: To create something that never existed before.
The tension between being and becoming (is where the story usually sits).
“The gaze” to claim power over the many dimensions of sight and seeing.
Drucker: Theory of female pleasure that can emerge from production. Laying claim to the marvelous, entering the space of meaning, the right of vision, clairvoyance and agency.
Women are the “Silent bearers” of ideology in Western literature. Women have made the “necessary sacrifice to male secularity” which finds its expression in materialist, public activity in a world that cannot – indeed will not – accommodate a woman of action.
Male action/personal fulfillment requires: Selfishness, hardness, ingratitude.
The duty of women is to live for others. Those who indulge their ambition often grapple with self-loathing. Male action stereotypes the majority and silences the rest. Result for women is anxiety of authorship.
To paint, to write, to think — is to take authority.
The woman who moves, who acts, who copes with vicissitudes and seeks adventure is the minority.
Kristen Buckley 