The theoretical turn to narrative is a cultural symptom, not a discovery.

Evidence

If it makes sense to evoke a certain “return to storytelling” in the postmodern period, the “return” can at least be witnessed here in its full emergence (alongside which the emergence of narrative and narratology in postmodern theoretical production can also be identified as a cultural symptom of changes more basic than the mere discovery of a new theoretical truth). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 783

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The psychological is a symptom of the spectral, not vice versa. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 523