The Mess Inside: Narrative, Emotion, and the MindPeter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives our past, present, and future in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. The Mess Inside engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as having any