Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Schwab, M. In Bernecker, S. & Michaelian, K., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, pages 496–509. Routledge, New York, 2017.
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[first paragraph] In a volume on theories of memory, psychoanalysis is of interest for its idea of unconscious memory. Unconscious memory is different from many other familiar forms in five important respects: (1) A sharp line separates structural or systemic memory from historical memory. (2) What is remembered is inaccessible to ordinary remembering consciousness, accessible only after an unfamiliar reconstruction. (3) Remembrances are unrecognizable as to that they recollect, and what they recollect. (4) Unconscious memory is an agential power of its own, recalling itself to the subject after equally unconscious formative processes (repression, displacement). (5) The psychic forces and agencies participating in remembering articulate the remembrances in figural representation (metaphor, metonymy, staging, iconicity). Psychoanalysis provides the theory and the practice of transforming unconscious memory into conscious memory. The ability to decipher and bring to consciousness what was out of reach for remembrance, and the curative power of this transformation are integral parts in the ascription of unconscious memory.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] In a volume on theories of memory, psychoanalysis is of interest for its idea of unconscious memory. Unconscious memory is different from many other familiar forms in five important respects: (1) A sharp line separates structural or systemic memory from historical memory. (2) What is remembered is inaccessible to ordinary remembering consciousness, accessible only after an unfamiliar reconstruction. (3) Remembrances are unrecognizable as to that they recollect, and what they recollect. (4) Unconscious memory is an agential power of its own, recalling itself to the subject after equally unconscious formative processes (repression, displacement). (5) The psychic forces and agencies participating in remembering articulate the remembrances in figural representation (metaphor, metonymy, staging, iconicity). Psychoanalysis provides the theory and the practice of transforming unconscious memory into conscious memory. The ability to decipher and bring to consciousness what was out of reach for remembrance, and the curative power of this transformation are integral parts in the ascription of unconscious memory.},
address = {New York},
author = {Schwab, Martin},
booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory},
editor = {Bernecker, Sven and Michaelian, Kourken},
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pages = {496--509},
publisher = {Routledge},
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year = {2017}
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