van Eenennaam, Ian William: “It Is Me That Is Alive”: Undergone Self-Reference, Self-Persistence, and Narrative Self-Verification

This paper argues that the first-person determination “it is me that is alive” is secured neither by reflective self-identification nor by the particular contents of a narrative identity,but by the structure through which a narrative is lived from within. Methodologically, the proof begins from the present “I am”, not from projection into another life. Narrative identity theories rightly emphasize memory, continuity, self-interpretation, and biographical intelligibility. Yet such contents answer