Narrating the Self in the Age of Social Media: A Cross-Reading of Boris Cyrulnik and Jérôme Bruner

This article offers a cross-reading of Jerome Bruner’s narrative intelligence and the narrative identity of Boris Cyrulnik and Paul Ricoeur to grasp the self-narrative on Discord. Drawing on fifteen interviews conducted within a Weberian interpretive framework, it shows how the interface generates a sense of a ‘‘ blank page’’ that licenses identity experimentation, omission, and confiding without fear of consequences. The body, and the voice in particular, nonetheless recalls the subject to temporal coherence. Between the lightness of the ephemeral bond and the maintenance of self through the Ricoeurian promise, the online self-narrative articulates sameness and selfhood, revealing the platform as a social circle in its own right.