Remembering the Personal Past: Descriptions of Autobiographical Memory 0195068947, 9780195068948, 9781423736585, 9780195361629

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Memory Observed by Introspection......Page 25
William James on the "Big" Questions......Page 26
Introspective Psychology......Page 27
Introspective Memory Phenomena......Page 29
Recognition Memory in Psychology......Page 33
Philosophical and Phenomenological Viewpoints......Page 35
Déjà Vu and Related Phenomena......Page 41
Memory for Emotions......Page 43
Intentionality and Memory Automaticity......Page 48
The Effort Paradox......Page 51
Conceptual Summary......Page 54
3. Freud's Theory of Memory......Page 58
Screen Memories......Page 60
Repression......Page 62
Childhood Amnesia......Page 66
The Sense of Smell and Organic Repression......Page 68
Auditory and Visual Imagery and Reality Testing......Page 71
Infantile Memories (or Fantasies?) and Deferred Action......Page 72
Multiple Registration of Childhood Events......Page 75
Subjective Descriptions and a Functional Association Memory Model......Page 78
Normal Forgetting......Page 81
The Forgetting of Intentions......Page 84
Ideational Mimetics......Page 86
Mnemic Symbols......Page 88
Repetition Compulsion......Page 90
Archaic Memories......Page 92
Freud's Personal Memory......Page 94
Memory Concepts of Ernst Kris......Page 96
Memory in Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology after Kris......Page 100
A Sampling of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theorists......Page 107
Alfred Adler......Page 124
D. Ewen Cameron......Page 128
William Sargant......Page 133
Memory Concepts: Psychoanalytic Summarizing Trends Freud's Theorizing......Page 135
Psychoanalytic Conceptions in Regard to Personal Memory after Freud......Page 142
Autobiographical Memory in the Developmental Theory of James Mark Baldwin......Page 146
Piaget's Theory and Autobiographical Memory......Page 150
Narrative Memory According to Pierre Janet......Page 160
8. Sociological and Historical Perspectives......Page 163
Sociological Descriptions of Memory......Page 164
History and Memory: Some Ways of Comparison......Page 172
Conceptual Summary......Page 180
9. Memory Transmission and Cultivation......Page 183
Oral Tradition and Oral History......Page 184
Oral Interpretation and Oral Culture......Page 187
Repeated Recalls and Personal Memories......Page 192
Urban Legends: Oral Transmission Today......Page 194
Nostalgia: A Complex Memoric Experience......Page 195
Conceptual Summary......Page 200
Intentionality......Page 203
The Coding Analogy......Page 205
Affective and Conative Memories......Page 207
Childhood Memories......Page 208
Memory as Social......Page 209
Memory as History and Chronology......Page 212
Memory Mechanisms and Psychological Systems......Page 214
The Self and Memory: Present, Absent, Dissociated?......Page 218
Interpretations and Suggestions......Page 221
Notes......Page 228
References......Page 244
C......Page 252
G......Page 253
L......Page 254
P......Page 255
T......Page 256
Z......Page 257