A Special Sort of Forgetting
Negation in Freud and Augustine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8334511 |
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| Authors | Daniel Rosengart (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-284 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003065116637051 |
| PMID | 27009296 |
| OpenAlex | W2303063656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The development from a positive, dualistic theory of memory and forgetting to a concept of memory that includes forgetting as a variety of remembering is traced in two thinkers. Freud’s concept of repression is discussed as a complex negation of both remembering and forgetting, and the development of this construct is shown in his letters to Wilhelm Fliess. A close reading of Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions shows a similar concept of a special sort of forgetting, in which what is forgotten is remembered nonetheless. Finally, the limits of the comparison are discussed, and a reading of Freud’s “Negation” reveals ways in which the unconscious is fundamentally unlike Augustine’s interiority
Arithmetic · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Construct (python library) · Forgetting · Linguistics · Negation · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Retrieval-induced forgetting · sort · Unconscious mind · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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