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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
Additionally, making a space change had its own effect. Passing through a doorway made information that's usually easy to remember harder to access. However, less important information was less affected. This shows that different things, like how things are connected and the space context, impact how people understand situations.
In psychology, false memory syndrome (FMS) was a proposed "pattern of beliefs and behaviors" [1] in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by false memories of psychological trauma, recollections which are strongly believed by the individual, but contested by the accused. [2]
German philosopher named Hermann Ebbinghaus decided to measure his own memory for lists of nonsense syllables at various times after studying them. He decided to draw out a curve of his forgetting pattern over time. He realized that there is a rapid drop-off in retention during the first tests and there is a slower rate of forgetting later on. [3]
Lily Allen revealed that her eating habits have been impacted due to her ongoing mental health struggles.. On the Dec. 16 episode of her BBC podcast Miss Me? with co-host Miquita Oliver, the 39 ...
mindful of things done, aware of things to come: Thus, both remembering the past and foreseeing the future. From the North Hertfordshire District Council coat of arms. Memoriae Sacrum (M.S.) Sacred to the Memory (of ...) A common first line on 17th-century English church monuments. The Latinized name of the deceased follows, in the genitive case.