Seven Types of Forgetting  

Oleh:

Connerton, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Memory Studies vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 2008), page 59-71.
Topik: Identity; Obsolescence; Shame
Fulltext: 07. Seven types of forgetting.pdf (87.41KB)

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Much of the debate on cultural memory has been shaped by the view, commonly held if not universal, that remembering and commemorating is usually a virtue and that forgetting is necessarily a failing. But this assumption is not self-evidently true. This article seeks, therefore, to disentangle the different types of acts that cluster together under the single term ‘to forget’. I suggest that we can distinguish at least seven types: repressive erasure; prescriptive forgetting; forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity; structural amnesia; forgetting as annulment; forgetting as planned obsolescence; forgetting as humiliated silence.

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