Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the BrainWe define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to