英文摘要 |
As archives are to the continuation of human civilization, so is the memory database to the survival of an individual. Archives record the past events and wait to be retrieved. Likewise, individual memory relies upon being remembered. Retrieval or remembering enables archives or individual memory to be released from the past, come to being, and interact with the events or experiences at the present. Despite their structural similarity, the individual’s memory overlaps with the social memory, but not wholly. And it is this sense of not wholly overlapping that activates the individual’s interaction with or reaction against the community. In the course of interaction with or reaction against the community, the individual will retrieve personal memory and archival memory for comparison, coherence, dialogue or dialectics, with the result of a potentiality for de-limitation. What drives the individual’s interaction with and reaction against the community? Freud’s theorization of the psychical apparatus reveals that recording and processing the experience determine the later activities of the individual’s relation to the community. All these ideas, this paper argues, have been implied in Freud’s theory of memory in On Aphasia, “Project for a Scientific Psychology,” Letter to Fliess #52, Studies on Hysteria and Interpretation of Dreams. This paper goes on to analyze the potentiality lying in the process of transcribing and translating the external and internal excitations of an experience into a memory in the Freudian theory of memory. |