The goal of the present article is to comment and to potentially expand some of the arguments developed in Cresswell’s (2011) Being faithful: Bakhtin and a potential postmodern psychology of self, published in Culture & Psychology. The original work presents the reader with the author’s position about Bakhtin’s elaborations on the meanings of self and on the implications of his elaborations for a Psychology of the self. Although the ideas disposed in the original article are evocative of creative analytical results, in terms of the social constitution of the sense of selfness, the present work presents a different perspective on the topic. Considering the material of a decade of research on verbal reports, I present an alternative proposition, sustaining (together with pragmaticists of the piercean legade) that the temporal organization of personal experience follows a bidirectional direction.
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