Multilinearity in ‘reading’: Bridging cultural psychology and autoethnography

Reading is not a linear process. In this commentary on Struppe-Schanda’s autoethnographic work, I explore the multilinear nature of reading from the experience of being able or unable to ‘read’ her work. This commentary attempts an autoethnography that emphasises the subjective feelings of the researcher and resists the traditional modalities of ‘science’. In determining the starting point for this commentary, whether as an autoethnographer or cultural psychologist, I discovered numerous potential directions for further development. Presented as a fictional conversation with my other self, this commentary delves into the implications of deliberative autoethnography, which seeks to explore subjectivity differently from mainstream evocative autoethnography.