Thursday, March 7, 2019

M (FJU 2019) - character vs. personality


It was historian Warren Susman (1973) who first noticed that around 1890 advice manuals stopped talking about character as the central ingredient of the predominant way of being (i.e., the self), and began touting the importance of what they called personality.

Cushman, Philip. Travels with the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series) (p. 80). Taylor and Francis. 2018, Kindle edition. 

所以personality是心理學用詞
character是小說家用詞
所以self指的是character不是personality

我先前曾說過
創造出一個有趣的角色
你就可以寫出好看的小說
這裡講的角色就是character就是self
這件事Lee Child (Jack Reacher) Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) Lawrence Block (Matthew Scudder)知道