RECOGNITION, STORYTELLING AND IDENTITY.

In this paper, I analyze the development of self-consciousness from a reflection of what is individual ego, to reach the effective self-recognition which consists in the narrative synthesis between personal identity and the collective level of identity. In Ricoeur's book Parcours de la reconnaissance -- personal identity is defined in the context of a successful attempt to bring philosophical dignity to the idea of recognition, which gives a special place to this concept in Ricoeur's work. In addition, constructing personal identity means "remembering the self which above all is essential to define the "person". This development of self-awareness is achieved through a story well told about personal memory and collective history. In this regard -- to say, to do, to tell stories and to recount himself are "capacities": to say means to tell stories (possibly on what you did); to tell and to recount stories are forms of "action" by which the individual is aware of himself and shares this with others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]