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Freud’s MemoryOthers’ Memories

Freud’s Memory: Others’ Memories [In the first part (1992) of Angels in America, Tony Kushner has Harper, the saddened wife of a secretly homosexual husband, make a statement that, in isolation, would seem plainly self-evident: If I didn’t ever see you before and I don’t think I did, then I don’t think you should be here, in this hallucination, because in my experience the mind, which is where hallucinations come from, shouldn’t be able to make up anything that wasn’t there to start with, that didn’t enter it from experience, from the real world. Imagination can’t create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Freud’s MemoryOthers’ Memories

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White, Rob
Freud’s Memory — Sep 29, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-1-349-28089-6
Pages
37 –65
DOI
10.1057/9780230227569_3
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Abstract

[In the first part (1992) of Angels in America, Tony Kushner has Harper, the saddened wife of a secretly homosexual husband, make a statement that, in isolation, would seem plainly self-evident: If I didn’t ever see you before and I don’t think I did, then I don’t think you should be here, in this hallucination, because in my experience the mind, which is where hallucinations come from, shouldn’t be able to make up anything that wasn’t there to start with, that didn’t enter it from experience, from the real world. Imagination can’t create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions.1]

Published: Sep 29, 2015

Keywords: Personal Identity; Individual Mind; Introductory Lecture; Oedipus Complex; White Whale

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