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[[Recollection]] ([[French]]: ''[[remémoration]]'') and [[remembering ]] (mÈmoration''[[mémoration]]'') are [[Symbolicsymbolic]] processes which [[Lacan contrasts temporal sense ]] with reminiscence (see TIME''réminiscence''). In other words, 'there which is regression on the plane ofan [[imaginary]] phenomenon.

with reminiscence (Fr. rÈminiscence)Whereas [[remembering]] is the act whereby some [[event]] or [[signifier]] is registered for the first time in the [[symbolic]] [[memory]], which [[recollection]] is the act whereby such an [[Imaginaryevent]] phenomenon∑ signification and not on the plane of or [[signifier]] is [[Realrecalled]]ity' (S2, 103). Thus regression is to be

Whereas remembering is [[Reminiscence]] involves reliving [[past]] experience and feeling once again the act whereby some event or signifier is registered understood 'not in the instinctual sense, nor in the sense of the resurgence of[[emotion]]s associated with that experience.

for the first time in [[Lacan]] stresses that the [[Symbolicanalytic process]] does not aim at [[reminiscence]] MEMORY, recollection is the act whereby such something anterior', but in the sense of 'the reduction of the at [[Symbolicrecollection]] to the.

an event or signifier While it is recalled true that intense [[Imaginarymemories]] may be evoked in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], with accompanying [[emotion]]al [[discharge]]' (S4, 355)this is not the basis of the [[analytic process]].

[[Reminiscence ]] is also linked by [[Lacan]] to the [[Plato]]nic theory of [[knowledge]]. [[RRecollection]] in the [[treatment]] involves reliving past experience and feeling once again the Insofar as regression can be said to have a temporal sense, it does not[[patient]] tracing the [[master signifier]]s of his life.

emotions associated with that experience. Lacan stresses that the analytic involve "The realization by the subject 'going back of his history in time', but rather his relation to a rearticulation of certainfuture."<ref>{{E}} p.88</ref>

process does not By means of [[recollection]], the [[treatment]] [[aim ]]s at reminiscence but at recollection"the complete reconstitution of the subject's history"<ref>{{S1]] p. In this sense, it DEMANDs: 'regression shows nothing other than a return to 12</ref> and the present "assumption ofhis history by the subject."<ref>{{E}} p.48</ref>

differs from the What matters is not 'cathartic methodreliving' invented by Josef Breuer, the formative events of the [[past]] in which any intuitive or experiential way; on the signifiers used in demands for which there contrary, what matters is a prescriptionwhat the [[analysand]] reconstructs of his [[past]],<ref>{{S1}} p.13</ref> the key word being 'reconstruct' (E, 255). Regres-

emphasis was placed on "It is less a discharge matter of pathogenic affects via the reliving of sion to the oral stage, for example, is to be understood in terms remembering than of therewriting history."<ref>{{S1}} p.14</ref>

certain traumatic events. While it is true that intense memories may be evoked articulation of oral demands (the demand to be fed, evident in the demand==See Also==* [[Memory]]in psychoanalytic treatment, with accompanying emotional discharge, this is for the analyst to supply interpretations). When understood in this sense, Lacan* [[Signifier]]* [[Past]] not the basis of the analytic process. Reminiscence is also linked by Lacan to reaffirms the importance of regression in psychoanalytic treatment, arguing* [[Treatment]]* [[Acting out]]the Platonic theory of knowledge- that regression to the anal stage, for example, is so important that no analysis  Recollection in the treatment involves the patient tracing the master sig- which has not encountered this can be called complete (S8, 242). nifiers of his life, or, in other words, 'the * [[RealForgetting]]ization by the subject of his history in his relation to a future' (E, 88). By means of recollection, the religion (religion) Freud renounced the Jewish religion of his parents  treatment aims at * 'the complete reconstitution of the subject's history' (S1[[Remembering, (though not his Jewish identity) Repeating and considered himself an atheist. While he 12) and the Working-Through]]'assumption of his history by the subject' (E, 48). What matters is regarded monotheistic forms of religion as the sign of a highly developed state* [[Reminiscence]] not 'reliving' the formative events of the past in any intuitive or experiential of civilisation, he nevertheless thought that all religions were barriers to way (which would be mere reminiscence, or - even worse - * [[Acting OutRepression]]); on the cultural progress, and thus argued that they should be abandoned in favour contrary, what matters is what the analysand reconstructs of his past (Sl, 13), of * [[ScienceResistance]]. Freud argued that religions were an attempt to protect oneself the key word being 'reconstruct'. 'It is less a matter of remembering than of against suffering by 'a delusional remoulding of * [[RealSilence]]ity', and thus concluded rewriting history' (Sl, 14). that they 'must be classed among the mass-* [[DelusionsTransference]]' of humankind (Freud,  1930a: SE XXI, 81). He saw the idea of God as an expression of infantile  Four Fund. 40, 47, 49-51, 54

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