Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind emBeckett and the Cognitive Method emargues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology. Through a detailed analysis of Beckett's entire corpus and published volumes of letters, this book argues that Beckett pioneered a new method of writing to construct in a mode analogous to scientific inquiry models for the exploration of core laws, processes, and dynamics in the human mind. pMarco Bernini integrates frameworks from contemporary narrative theory, cognitive sciences, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind to make a case for Beckett's modeling practice. Bernini demonstrates how this modeling applies to a vast array of processes including the narrative illusion of a sense of self, the dialogic interaction with memories and felt p