Emotion and Narrative: Perspectives in Autobiographical Storytelling

Emotions have a life beyond the immediate eliciting situation, as they tend to be shared with others by putting the experience in narrative form.

Narrating emotions helps us to express, understand, and share them: the way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.

In 'Emotion and Narrative', Habermas introduces the forms of oral narratives of personal experiences, and highlights a narrative's capacity to integrate various personal and temporal perspectives.