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Emotional Memory Emotional Memory
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Active Forgetting and Repression Active Forgetting and Repression
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Collective and Cultural Remembering and Forgetting Collective and Cultural Remembering and Forgetting
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Absence, Ritual, and Religion Absence, Ritual, and Religion
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Religious Institutions and Forgetting Religious Institutions and Forgetting
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Indian Ghosts Indian Ghosts
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Abstract
Memory is entwined with emotion. The emotional component enables the experience of remembering without awareness, that is, without explicit cognitive experience of remembering. Persons similarly forget, and in fact can learn to forget, because of emotion. Collectives do the same. History is replete with calls to collective forgetting, especially after conflicts between nations, when peace treaties explicitly called for mutual forgetting of the violence that had occurred. Societies construct regimes of forgetting through narrative, ritual, and material culture. Forgetting is never entirely accomplished, however. Socially constructed amnesia typically leaks memory, prompted by historical and environmental change. Psychoanalytic and neuroscientific research present evidence that memory can be repressed but then can emerge as implicit memory, so that persons can access working memory without inducing conscious content. That process can take place collectively, eased by religion and ritual, which can frame a dialectics of remembering and forgetting in which absence is perceptible yet fugitive simultaneously. When we consider forgetting in connection with absence we are at some point thinking about the situated return of what has been forgotten. Religions foster forgetting by creating and sustaining technologies of forgetting, but also coax the return of the repressed.
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