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recollection (remÈmoration)                   
 
  
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Recollection      (remÈmoration)      and                      way Freud understood the term when he introduced it in 1900, and not in a
 
  
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remembering (mÈmoration)     are [[Symbolic]] processes which Lacan contrasts                              temporal sense (see TIME). In other words, 'there is regression on the plane of
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[[Recollection]] ([[French]]: ''[[remémoration]]'') and [[remembering]] (''[[mémoration]]'') are [[symbolic]] processes which [[Lacan]] with reminiscence (''réminiscence''), which is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon.
  
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with reminiscence (Fr. rÈminiscence), which is an [[Imaginary]] phenomenon∑                                  signification and not on the plane of [[Real]]ity' (S2, 103). Thus regression is to be
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Whereas [[remembering]] is the act whereby some [[event]] or [[signifier]] is registered for the first time in the [[symbolic]] [[memory]], [[recollection]] is the act whereby such an [[event]] or [[signifier]] is [[recalled]].
  
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Whereas remembering is the act whereby some event or signifier is registered                              understood 'not in the instinctual sense, nor in the sense of the resurgence of
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[[Reminiscence]] involves reliving [[past]] experience and feeling once again the [[emotion]]s associated with that experience.
  
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for the first time in the [[Symbolic]] MEMORY, recollection is the act whereby such                        something anterior', but in the sense of 'the reduction of the [[Symbolic]] to the
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[[Lacan]] stresses that the [[analytic process]] does not aim at [[reminiscence]] but at [[recollection]].
  
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  an event or signifier is recalled                                                                                                  [[Imaginary]]' (S4, 355).
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While it is true that intense [[memories]] may be evoked in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], with accompanying [[emotion]]al [[discharge]], this is not the basis of the [[analytic process]].  
  
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      Reminiscence involves reliving past experience and feeling once again the                                 Insofar as regression can be said to have          a temporal sense, it does not
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[[Reminiscence]] is also linked by [[Lacan]] to the [[Plato]]nic theory of [[knowledge]].                                                                   
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[[RRecollection]] in the [[treatment]] involves the [[patient]] tracing the [[master signifier]]s of his life.
  
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emotions associated with that experience. Lacan stresses that the analytic                                    involve the subject 'going back in time', but rather a rearticulation of certain
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"The realization by the subject of his history in his relation to a future."<ref>{{E}} p.88</ref>
  
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process does not aim at reminiscence but at recollection. In this sense, it                                      DEMANDs: 'regression shows nothing other than    a return to the present of
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By means of [[recollection]], the [[treatment]] [[aim]]s at "the complete reconstitution of the subject's history"<ref>{{S1]] p.12</ref> and the "assumption of his history by the subject."<ref>{{E}} p.48</ref>
  
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differs from the 'cathartic method' invented by Josef Breuer, in which the                                     signifiers used in demands for which there is a prescription' (E, 255). Regres-
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What matters is not 'reliving' the formative events of the [[past]] in any intuitive or experiential way; on the contrary, what matters is what the [[analysand]] reconstructs of his [[past]],<ref>{{S1}} p.13</ref> the key word being 'reconstruct'.  
  
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emphasis was placed on a discharge of pathogenic affects via the reliving of                                sion  to the oral stage, for example, is to be understood in terms of the
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"It is less a matter of remembering than of rewriting history."<ref>{{S1}} p.14</ref>             
  
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certain traumatic events. While it is true that intense memories may be evoked                            articulation of oral demands (the demand to be fed, evident in the demand
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* [[Memory]]
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in psychoanalytic treatment, with accompanying emotional discharge, this is                              for the analyst to supply interpretations). When understood in this sense, Lacan
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* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Past]]
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  not the basis of the analytic process. Reminiscence is also linked by Lacan to                            reaffirms the importance of regression in psychoanalytic treatment, arguing
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* [[Treatment]]
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* [[Acting out]]
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the Platonic theory of knowledge-                                                                                                that regression to the anal stage, for example, is so important that no analysis
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* [[Forgetting]]
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* ''[[Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through]]''
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      Recollection in the treatment involves the patient tracing the master sig-                              which has not encountered this can be called complete (S8, 242).
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* [[Reminiscence]]
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* [[Repression]]
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nifiers of his life, or, in other words, 'the [[Real]]ization by the subject of his
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* [[Resistance]]
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* [[Silence]]
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history in his relation to a future' (E, 88). By              means of recollection, the                          religion (religion)              Freud renounced the Jewish religion of his parents
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  treatment aims at 'the complete reconstitution of the subject's history' (S1,                               (though not his Jewish identity) and considered himself an atheist. While he
 
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12) and the 'assumption of his history by the subject' (E, 48). What matters is                              regarded monotheistic forms of religion as the sign of a highly developed state
 
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  not 'reliving' the formative events of the past in any intuitive or experiential                            of civilisation, he nevertheless thought that all religions          were barriers to
 
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way (which would be mere reminiscence, or      - even worse  - [[Acting Out]]); on the                cultural progress, and thus argued that they should be abandoned in favour
 
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contrary, what matters is what the analysand reconstructs of his past (Sl, 13),                              of [[Science]]. Freud argued that religions    were  an attempt to protect oneself
 
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the key word being 'reconstruct'. 'It is less a matter of remembering than of                                  against suffering by 'a delusional remoulding of [[Real]]ity', and thus concluded
 
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rewriting history' (Sl, 14).                                                                                                              that they 'must be classed among the mass-[[Delusions]]' of humankind (Freud,
 
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Recollection (French: remémoration) and remembering (mémoration) are symbolic processes which Lacan with reminiscence (réminiscence), which is an imaginary phenomenon.

Whereas remembering is the act whereby some event or signifier is registered for the first time in the symbolic memory, recollection is the act whereby such an event or signifier is recalled.

Reminiscence involves reliving past experience and feeling once again the emotions associated with that experience.

Lacan stresses that the analytic process does not aim at reminiscence but at recollection.

While it is true that intense memories may be evoked in psychoanalytic treatment, with accompanying emotional discharge, this is not the basis of the analytic process.

Reminiscence is also linked by Lacan to the Platonic theory of knowledge. RRecollection in the treatment involves the patient tracing the master signifiers of his life.

"The realization by the subject of his history in his relation to a future."[1]

By means of recollection, the treatment aims at "the complete reconstitution of the subject's history"[2] and the "assumption of his history by the subject."[3]

What matters is not 'reliving' the formative events of the past in any intuitive or experiential way; on the contrary, what matters is what the analysand reconstructs of his past,[4] the key word being 'reconstruct'.

"It is less a matter of remembering than of rewriting history."[5]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.88
  2. ↑ {{S1]] p.12
  3. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock Publications, 1977. p.48
  4. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54. Trans. John Forrester. New York: Nortion; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p.13
  5. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar. Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54. Trans. John Forrester. New York: Nortion; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p.14
  • Four Fund. 40, 47, 49-51, 54
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