Quotes About Memory

My father had a good reputation. Not that anyone ever thought of it when he was alive.

When the cow goes to pasture," says my mother, "it forgets to say good-bye.

Thinking of the dead," says my mother, "makes you wonder about the living …

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died.

There is a theory that nothing in nature is ever lost—that every sound ever made, every word ever spoken, still exists somewhere in space and time and may one day be recalled.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.

The dream shows how recollections of one's everyday life can be worked into a structure where one person can be substituted for another, where unacknowledged feelings like envy and guilt can find expression, where ideas can be linked by verbal similarities, and where the laws of logic can be suspended.

A large number of observers acknowledge that dream life is capable of extraordinary achievements—at any rate, in certain fields (Memory).

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

The hypermnesia of dreams and their command of childhood material have become the two pillars on which our theory rests; our theory of dreams has ascribed to wishes deriving from childhood the part of indispensable moving-force in the formation of dreams.

In inconstient, nimic nu ia sfarsit, nu trece, nu se uita

Various sources force us to assume that the so-called earliest childhood recollections are not true memory traces but later elaborations of the same, elaborations which might have been subjected to the influences of many later psychic forces. Thus, the childhood reminiscences of individuals altogether advance to the signification of concealing memories, and thereby form a noteworthy analogy to the childhood reminiscences as laid down in the legends and myths of nations.

What one forgets once he will often forget again.

A normal dream stands, as it were, on two feet, one of which derives from the actual nature of the occasion for it, the other on a childhood event with serious consequences.

We may say that the patient does not remember anything at all of what he has forgotten and repressed, but rather acts it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he repeats it, without of course being aware of the fact that he is repeating it.

The greater the resistance, the more thoroughly remembering will be replaced by acting out (repetition)....he repeats everything deriving from the repressed element within himself that has already established itself in his manifest personality.

No podemos sino atenernos a la conclusión de que en la vida psíquica la conservación de lo pretérito es la regla más bien que una curiosa excepción.

Finalmente, há outro fato que se deve ter em mente como capaz de levar os sonhos a serem esquecidos, a saber, que a maioria das pessoas têm muito pouco interesse pelos seus sonhos. Qualquer um, como um pesquisador científico, que preste atenção aos seus sonhos por certo período de tempo, terá mais sonhos do que habitualmente - o que, sem dúvida, significa que ele se recorda dos seus sonhos com maior facilidade e frequencia.

Si colocamos en un orden arbitrario las palabras de un verso, nos será muy difícil retenerlo así en nuestra memoria. «Bien ordenadas y en sucesión lógica, se ayudan unas palabras a otras, y la totalidad plena de sentido es fácilmente recordada durante largo tiempo. Lo desprovisto de sentido nos es tan difícil de retener como lo confuso o desordenado.»

O intalnire cu filozoful William James mi-a lasat o impresie de neuitat. Nu am putut sa nu tin minte aceasta scena: in cursul unei plimbari, el s-a oprit deodata, mi-a incredintat servieta si m-a rugat sa continui drumul, el avand sa ma urmeze de indata ce ii va fi trecut criza de anghina pectorala pe care o presimtea. A murit de inima un an mai tarziu; n-am incetat sa-mi doresc un asemenea curaj in fata sfarsitului apropiat.

Desde que superamos o erro de achar que nosso habitual esquecimento significa uma destruição do traço mnemônico, tendemos à suposição contrária de que na vida psíquica nada que uma vez se formou pode acabar, de que tudo é preservado de alguma maneira e poder ser trazido novamente à luz em circunstâncias adequadas, mediante uma regressão de largo alcance, por exemplo.

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