Reading Notes:

Sue Campbell, "Chapter 2: Respecting Remembers," Relational Remembering, 25-45.
25: Memory contests: Whose story is remembered, whose story counts?
26: Repression, dissociation, and recovery from the unconscious
26: FMSF: False Memory Syndrome Foundation
27: Western culture's emphasis on memory as a key to selfhood
    possible contrasts with self as body, or forgetfulness and selfhood
    asymmetry between calling into question women as rememberers and women as deniers of the same memories being remembered
    FMSF socio-economic bias
28: "The performance of a personal narrative is a fundamental means by which people comprehend their own lives and present a 'self' to the audience."
29: Memory, interpretation, and the authenticity of a story: Whose story counts as real, and thus, whose self counts as real?
29-30: Example: Beatrice Hanson, her grandaughter Katherine Borland, and Hanson's memory of her father:
    Hanson bets on a race against her father's advice and wins. Hanson's version of the story is one of proud accomplishment witnessed by a father who is ultimately proud of his daughter. Borland's account of Hanson is of a woman who defiantly stands against her chauvinistic, patriarchal father.
32-34: How we come to see a person as a 'person': i) requires a normative view of personhood (judgment about what a valid person is), ii) that this normative view is established socially, iii)  can occur to varying degrees, and iv) is established through the conferring of 'respect.'
    Respecting that a person remembers correctly, and can act on that intention appropriately, confers personhood on that person. Likewise, disrespect devalues that person's personhood.
35: Example: the difficulty that incest survivor has in establishing appropriate intentions towards the future, in part due to the molester's damaging the survivor's sense of memory, which becomes highly confused (What really happened?!), and her ability to plan for the future (appropriate intention).
39: (contra John Locke), memory is not just remembering past actions and experiences with the same consciousness as when the action or experience took place, but now to have a retrospective view with a different, and possible more evolved sense of the significance of the event, and one's sense of responsibility, awareness, and values with regard to it: "changed consciousness [is a] part of normal experiential memory"
38: Example: Learning Remembering
41-42: William James' example of Thurlow Weed: The power of having another listen to and hear your story. Converse example of someone constantly questioning your version of past events. In this sense, the self of story, of past memory, present intention, and faith and hope in the future, is the story of a relational self.

Robert Akeret, "Chapter 1: Naomi: The Dancer from the Dance," Tales from a Travelling Couch, 19-57.
Background of Robert Akeret and his book, Tales from a Travelling Couch.
The case of Naomi, one of his first patients.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
Does Naomi's case fit? Etiology - Infant sexual abuse

Akeret's role and 'treatment'

Parent-child relationship, memory, and self


Film: Return with Honor, presented by Tom Hanks

T. S. Eliot

Music heard so deeply

It is not heard at all

And you are the music

While the music lasts

Leona Lewis, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face