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[[Recollection]] ([[French]]: ''[[remémoration]]'') and [[remembering]] (''[[mémoration]]'') are [[symbolic]] processes which [[Lacan]] 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.
[[Lacan]] stresses that the [[analytic process]] does not aim at [[reminiscence]] but at [[recollection]].
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]].
[[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'.
"It is less a matter of remembering than of rewriting history."<ref>{{S1}} p.14</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Memory]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Past]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Acting out]]
* [[Forgetting]]
* ''[[Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through]]''
* [[Reminiscence]]
* [[Repression]]
* [[Resistance]]
* [[Silence]]
* [[Transference]]
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Imaginary]]
* Four Fund. 40, 47, 49-51, 54
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.
[[Lacan]] stresses that the [[analytic process]] does not aim at [[reminiscence]] but at [[recollection]].
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]].
[[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'.
"It is less a matter of remembering than of rewriting history."<ref>{{S1}} p.14</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Memory]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Past]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Acting out]]
* [[Forgetting]]
* ''[[Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through]]''
* [[Reminiscence]]
* [[Repression]]
* [[Resistance]]
* [[Silence]]
* [[Transference]]
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Imaginary]]
* Four Fund. 40, 47, 49-51, 54
