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narrative
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Of course I was switching between him and me, getting piecemeals of the doctor with projections in an almost classical mode, but for the first time I found myself at moments running short of my story, my chosen narrative.†

narrative = story
I would tick off each staging of the narrative, every known turn and counter-turn.†
I simply wrote textbook examples of our workaday narrative, veritable style sheets that Hoagland even used to remind the other analysts of how it ought to be done.†
But Hoagland would have wanted me to continue pushing him, to extend the evening's narrative to its logical and fitting end.†
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I will know nothing of the crafts of argument or narrative or drama.†
His method with me was in fact anti-associative, and he asked me to look at my life not just from a singular mode but through the crucible of a larger narrative.†
In the old narratives that Dennis practices, he might well involve a wife or lover to use against a troublesome operative; but with me he understands that he can forever count on my Confucian upbringing, press it to my brow like a tribal lodestone, a signet of the culture, which he knows can burn deeper than even love or fear.†

narratives = stories

Definitions:

(1) (narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...)
a story; or related to a story
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)