Autobiography and Propriation

An autobiography introduces structure into its topic. Narrative connects incidents that may not have been originally experienced as such. "I was reading, and then I went for a walk" links what might have originally been two discrete events, by characterizing the I that commenced reading, and what it became in the process of reading, as constitutive of the I that commenced going for a walk. Some theories maintain that the the two I's are identical, others that they are different. But both theories are inaccurate--the first is I becomes part of the second. Now, narration, like any description, must be subsequent to it. Hence, it must treat what it describes as completed, and, so, introduces closure into it. Furthermore, as can be seen when someone writes an autobiography, or even keeps a diary, in order to 'make sense of their life, and who they are', the narration organically emerges from the experiences that are themselves to be described. As such, closure is an immanent product, not imposed from without. Finally, the most recent autobiographical event is the one that can never explicitly appear in the autobiographical narrative, but is always implicitly present--the narrative itself. In autobiographical narrative, Subject and Object thus converge. Now, Reflection is internal autobiography. In it, one gathers and retains oneself, one makes oneself one's own. It is an example of Propriation, in which which various movements Become-the-Same. Reflection is an example of Propriation, the Formal Principle of the Individual.