"I think therefore I am” : memories and individuality in dystopian novels

• Main Author: Eng, Louisa Siew Lynn
• Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52205
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The basis of this thesis is Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey’s argument of what makes a person “unique, different from all others, is his or her set of personal memories”, also known as “self -defining memories”. As the term explicitly suggests, self- defining memories are an individual’s perso...