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abstract = {[first paragraph] IN ETERNAL SUNSHINE CHARLIE KAUFMAN explores the cost of mental peace and tranquility when it comes at the price of authen- ticity. The plot centers on the issue of voluntary memory purging. A new, rather seedy, business, Lacuna, has opened up and offers clients memory purges that are fairly selective. One can, for example, have the memories of a specific person deleted. Joel Barish decides to have the memories of his relationship with an ex-girlfriend, Clementine Kruczynski, erased. He decides this after finding out that she has had her memories of their relationship erased. His motives are partly reciprocal, but primarily he wants to avoid pain—not only the pain of their relationship but also the pain regarding the knowledge that she erased him from her life. This feature of the plotline in Eternal Sunshine raises a host of extremely interesting ethical issues. We would clearly regard erasing memories non-voluntarily as immoral, as we would taking advantage of the memory loss (as Dr Howard Mierzwiak does with his assistant Mary, and as Stan does with Clementine). But I'm interested in the issue of what we owe people we used to love in terms of memory. My initial reaction when viewing the film was shock that Clementine had done it; and the shock was not just because she is cutting out an important set of memories that reflect part of her life—there was also shock for Joel's sake. Aside from the issue of whether or not it is a good thing for the agent to erase painful memories of a relationship, there arises the issue of whether or not the other person in the relationship has been harmed.2 I certainly don't want to argue that people ought not to have memories erased—that would be much too radical. But if the other person is harmed, as Joel seems to have been, then that harm would at least have to be weighed in the balance.},
address = {London},
author = {Driver, Julia},
booktitle = {Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Philosophers on Film)},
editor = {Grau, Christopher},
file = {:Users/michaelk/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Driver - 2009 - Memory, desire, and value in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.pdf:pdf},
pages = {80--93},
publisher = {Routledge},
title = {{Memory, desire, and value in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind}},
year = {2009}
}

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