Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood

Resources for addressing such processes lie in the literature on selfhood: phenomenological accounts emphasizing pre-reflective self-presence, narrative theories conceptualizing selfhood through autobiographical reasoning, and Foucauldian approaches highlighting how discursive regimes structure self-interpretation.

“Resources for addressing such processes lie in the literature on selfhood: phenomenological accounts emphasizing pre-reflective self-presence [33], narrative theories conceptualizing selfhood through autobiographical reasoning [34], and Foucauldian approaches highlighting how discursive regimes structure self-interpretation [35].”

Contemporary technologies of the self operate within neoliberal governmentality, where individuals are constituted as entrepreneurs of themselves responsible for continuous self-optimization.

“Contemporary technologies of the self operate within neoliberal governmentality, where individuals are constituted as entrepreneurs of themselves responsible for continuous self-optimization [35].”

Frameworks attending to only one dimension of ChatGPT's role - as narrative co-author or as technology of self-governance - will miss the other.

“When ChatGPT functions as both narrative co-author and technology of self-governance-participating in autobiographical reasoning whilst embedding practices of self-care within optimization discourses [35] frameworks attending to only one dimension will miss the other.”