Peter Bichsel’s Poetics in the Conception of Philosophy of Stories, Narrative Identity Theory and Narrative Psychology

Abstract

The concept of story and storytelling about own life are the main issues of Peter Bichsel’s poetics. Story in his depiction is defined as a reflection of the man himself and the subjective test to clarify events from his own life trough individually formulated stories, which approximate better understanding oneself. So understood stories rise to the rank of anthropological standard which enables its interpretation from the perspective of both psychological and philosophical prospect.

Bichsel’s literary schedule was explained in this article on the basic of dynamically prospering in the last several years narrative psychology. It treats narration as a way of understanding reality and assigns therapeutic function to the stories. However from the philosophical perspective based on Wilhelm Schapp’s philosophy of stories expressing the human entangled in his own stories and based on Paul Ricœur’s narrative identity theory assuming that human is constructing his own identity by creating stories about his own life.