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MEMORY STUDIES
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 59-71Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007083889
Keywords
identity; obsolescence; shame
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Much of the debate on cultural memory has been shaped by the view, commonly held if not universal, that remembering and commemorating is usually a virtue and that forgetting is necessarily a failing. But this assumption is not self-evidently true. This article seeks, therefore, to disentangle the different types of acts that cluster together under the single term 'to forget'. I suggest that we can distinguish at least seven types: repressive erasure; prescriptive forgetting; forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity; structural amnesia; forgetting as annulment; forgetting as planned obsolescence; forgetting as humiliated silence.
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