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  1. The act of forgetting: Husserl on the constitution of the absent past.Patrick Eldridge - 2020 - Continental Philosophy Review 53 (4):401-417.
    I advance a phenomenology of forgetting based on Husserl’s accounts of time-consciousness and passive synthesis. This theory of forgetting is crucial for understanding the transcendental constitution of the past. I argue that without forgetting, neither memory nor retention suffice for a consciousness of the past as past, since both are irreducibly connected to the Living Present. After an initial survey of the challenges that confront a phenomenology of forgetting, I provide a descriptive analysis of forgetting as a complex process that (...)
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  • False Remembrance: Husserl’s Account of the Distortions of Memory.Patrick Eldridge - 2021 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52 (1):1-15.
    ABSTRACT This article demonstrates why Husserl struggled to understand the conditions of possibility of false memory, and how only the genetic dimension of his phenomenology enabled him to conceive of a specifically mnemic form of falsehood. For a false memory to deceive us, we must trust that it is true, but in order to have a phenomenology of its falsehood, the memory must appear as false. Husserl’s theory of false memory responds to both of these demands by showing how distorting (...)
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