Topographies of Memories by Anita Bakshi

Author:Anita Bakshi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Returning Memories from Time

The pieces of the city retrieved from the “forgotten” for Remzi and Marios are related to “encrypted memories.” In his work on Ancient Egypt, Jan Assmann discusses one particular episode in history that was “banished” from cultural memory. Later recollections about this period were subject to a range of transformations.To use a term of psychoanalysis , they became “encrypted ,” that is, inaccessible to conscious reflection and processing. The formation of a “crypt” in collective memory may be caused by strong traumatic experiences. Some even maintain that “encryption” is a much more faithful form of preserving traumatic memories than conscious remembering. But [this] case shows that suppression of encryption renders an original experience vulnerable to many kinds of distortion and transformation rather than preserving it in a pure state. 47

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