Narrative thinking and reality

Meaning, of narrativity and story in psychology is the aim of the study. Narrative and paradig-matic modus of thinking is discussed. Narrativi-ty is conceived as a way of knowledge and experience transformation into a story telling. The difference between narrativity and story is explored in psychological context. Story is defined as a inean of narrative construction of reality. Modus of narrative thinking is articulated in accordance with Bruner as a story of particular events developing in the course of time, as a meaningful story tor the individual, communi-cable with others, based on genre convention but simultaneously ambiguous and open for diffe-rent kind of in interpretation. Story comprises trou-bles that is its psychologically most distinctive characteristic. We can fully understand story only in context and in its historical background.