ABOUT THE OCEAN OF FORGETTING
ABOUT THE OCEAN OF FORGETTING

Summary/Abstract: “I have no wish to promote some particular thesis here; my only ambition is to share with you the intuition that I have regarding forgetting1. Everything that happens to us is kept. Husserl used the term “retention” for the way in which we keep all that happens to us. Whatever happens to me is given to me in a retained way, which means, for example, that when I remember that someone told me a particular thing – that I had made a stupid statement, let’s say – I remember both when and on what occasion I was told it. Of course it is possible for me to retain wrongly something”[…]

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