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The autobiographical genre is not an isolated literary epiphenomenon but a phenomenon involving historical, psychological, and social issues. It was born at the time when Western civilization was constantly concerned with the construction of subjectivity. Saint Augustine’s Confessions are the antecedent of Rousseau’s and of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Secret Diaries.
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Villegas, M., Feixas, G., Lopez, N. (1990). Phenomenological Analysis of Autobiographical Texts: A Design Based on Personal Construct Psychology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Man’s Self-Interpretation-in-Existence. Analecta Husserliana, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1864-1_32
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