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[[Recollection]] ([[French]]: ''[[remémoration]]'') and [[remembering]] (''[[mémoration]]'') are [[symbolic]] processes which [[Lacan]] with reminiscence (''réminiscence''), which is an [[imaginary]] phenomenon.
<blockquote>"The realization by the subject of his history in his relation to a future."<ref>{{E}} p.88</ref></blockquote>
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>
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'.
== References ==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
