Narrarsi. L’autobiografia come forma di cura di sé

[Machine translation] The article focuses on autobiographical narration as a peculiar form of narration in which the subject understands, beyond any pretense of self-sufficiency, in the impossibility of ignoring the relationship to the otherness that passes through us. The truth reached at the end of the self-story, of the work of self-interpretation in which the act of narrating oneself consists, is that “one's own is inappropriate”, it is “a renewed listening to the mystery that inhabits us.” The autobiography is presented as an anti-egological writing, because it challenges the primacy of the ego, opening it up to the mystery that inhabits it. Time, space, writing produce in the self-story an understanding of the subject as essentially constituted by the relationship to otherness, inaugurating a process that leads to the awareness of a structural non-possession of self.