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==Jacques Lacan==The term "[[memory]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[mémoire]]'') is used in two different ways in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].
==Symbolic ConceptOrder==
In the 1950s, [[memory]] is understood as a phenomenon of the [[symbolic order]], related to the [[signifying chain]].
==Recollection==
It is related to the concepts of [[remembering]] and [[recollection]], and opposed to [[imaginary]] reminiscence.
==Biology and Psychology=Not a Biological or Psychological Concept===
[[Lacan]] makes it clear that his concept of [[memory]] is not a [[biological]] or [[psychology|psychological]] one.
<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>
==Symbolic History of the Subject==
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 memorized only when something goes wrong with [[memory|memorized]], only when it is "registered in the subject cannot recall a part of his [[history]]signifying chain."<ref>{{S7}} p.212</ref>
==Biological or Physiological ConceptPsychoanalysis==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> ==Biology and Psychology==In the 1960s [[Lacan]] reserves the term "[[memory]]" for the [[biological]] or [[physiological]] concept of [[memory]] as an organic property.<ref>{{Ec}} p.42</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.
==See Also==
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* [[Biology]]
* [[Recollection]]
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* [[Signifier]]
* [[Signifying chain]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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