Consider a song lyric called THE BOXER. Written by Paul Simon. Most of THE BOXER is a first-person narrative. It's a confession of despair & self-pity spoken by a washed-up loser in the entertainment business: "I have squandered by resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises." But the final part of THE BOXER shifts into a third-person narrative: "In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade. And his carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down and cut him till he cried out, in his anger and his shame: 'I am leaving, I am leaving.' But the fighter still remains." The narrational shift in THE BOXER could possibly be interpreted as a psychological defense-mechanism on the part of the narrator. The boxer's defeat is too painful for the boxer to narrate in the first-person. So he objectifies himself with a third-person perspective in order to gain the necessary distance from himself.