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The term "[[memory]]" is used in two different ways in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].
<blockquote>"The memory which interests psychoanalysis is quite distinct from what psychologists [[speak ]] of when they display its [[mechanism ]] to us in an animate [[being ]] in an experiment."<ref>{{S3}} p.152</ref></blockquote>
For [[psychoanalysis]], [[memory]] is the [[symbolic]] [[history]] of the [[subject]], a [[chain]] of [[signifier]]s linked up together, a "signifying articulation."<ref>{{S7}} p.223</ref>
Something is [[memory|memorable]] and [[memory|memorized]] only when it is "registered in the signifying chain."<ref>{{S7}} p. 212</ref>
In this [[sense]], the [[unconscious]] is a sort of [[memory]],<ref>{{S3}} p. 155</ref> since "what we teach the subject to recognize as his unconscious is his history."<ref>{{E}} p. 52</ref>
The phenomena associated with [[memory]] which most interest the [[analyst]] are those moments when something goes wrong with [[memory]], when the [[subject]] cannot [[recollection|recall]] a part of his [[history]].
It is the fact that he can forget, that a [[signifier]] can be elided from the [[signifying chain]], that makes the [[psychoanalytic]] [[subject]] distinctive.<ref>{{S7}} p.224</ref>
It thus no longer designates the [[symbolic]] [[history]] of the [[subject]] which is the concern of [[psychoanalysis]], but something which lies [[outside ]] [[psychoanalysis]] altogether.
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* [[Biology]]
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