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==Jacques Lacan==
[[Recollection]] ([[French]]: and '''[[remémorationremembering]]'') and [[remembering]] ' (''[[mémoration]]'') are '''[[symbolic]] ''' processes which [[Lacan]] contrasts with '''reminiscence ''' (''réminiscence''), which is an '''[[imaginary]] ''' phenomenon.
Whereas [[remembering]] is the [[act ]] whereby some [[event]] or [[signifier]] is registered for the first time in the [[symbolic]] [[memory]], [[recollection]] is the [[act ]] whereby such an [[event]] or [[signifier]] is [[recalled]].
=====Reminiscence=====
[[Reminiscence]] involves reliving [[past]] experience and feeling once again the [[emotion]]s associated with that experience.
[[Reminiscence]] is also linked by [[Lacan]] to the [[Plato]]nic theory of [[knowledge]].
[[Recollection]] in the [[treatment]] involves the [[patient]] tracing the [[master signifier]]s of his life.
By means of [[recollection]], the [[treatment]] [[aim]]s at "the complete reconstitution of the subject's history"<ref>{{S1}} p. 12</ref> and the "assumption of his history by the subject."<ref>{{E}} p. 48</ref>
What matters is not '"reliving' " the formative events of the [[past]] in any intuitive or experiential way; on the contrary, what matters is what the [[analysand]] reconstructs of his [[past]],<ref>{{S1}} p. 13</ref> the key word being "reconstruct".
<blockquote>"It is less a matter of remembering than of rewriting history."<ref>{{S1}} p.14</ref></blockquote>
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