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[[Recollection]] 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]] involves reliving [[past]] [[experience ]] and [[feeling ]] once again the [[emotion]]s associated with that experience.

While it is [[true ]] that intense [[memories]] may be evoked in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], with accompanying [[emotion]]al [[discharge]], this is not the basis of the [[analytic process]].

[[Reminiscence]] is also linked by [[Lacan]] to the [[Plato]]nic [[theory ]] of [[knowledge]].

=====[[Psychoanalytic ]] Treatment===== [[Recollection]] in the [[treatment]] involves the [[patient]] tracing the [[master signifier]]s of his [[life]].

<blockquote>"The realization by the [[subject ]] of his [[history ]] in his relation to a [[future]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 88</ref></blockquote>

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".