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Le temps de l’oubli
The time of forgetting

Author(s): Odette Barbero
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: evasion;diversion;repression;creation;death

Summary/Abstract: L’oubli corrélé à la mémoire a une signification négative. Pourtant, son rôle, ambivalent, est d’abord positif : construction de la mémoire, pouvoir créateur, effet cathartique et thérapeutique. Mais seule la mort semble être synonyme d’oubli complet. Vivre consiste à oublier car l’oubli est essentiellement une question de temps. In relation to memory, forgetting has a negative sense. However, its role is ambivalent, and predominantly positive when connected to the construction of memory, creative power, and certain cathartic and therapeutic effects. Only death is synonymous with complete memory loss. To live is to forget because forgetting is in essence a question of time.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 117-133
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: French
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