I have always thought that one of the most interesting questions in philosophical psychology is whether another can understand us better than we understand ourselves. In principle I have wanted to argue the positive side of that case not only because it often empirically seems to be the case but because questions of the truthfulness of narrative construals hang on that issue. Maclntyre makes this point quite nicely in the ‘Postscript’ to the second edition of After Virtue by noting:

It is therefore with some concern that I respond to Milbank's extraordinary and wide-ranging paper. I feel at once embarrassed to be associated with a thinker so substantive and profound as MacKinnon but complimented that Milbank is able to put us in conversation. I feel like the young student who is told that what he just said is extremely interesting and important and is not even sure what it is he said.