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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Memory and the fictional imagination

creating memories

Peter Childs

pp. 63-66

Abstract

At the end of Woody Allen's film Another Woman (1988), the question is asked: "Is a memory something you have or something you"ve lost?" This is a pleasing formulation because of the resonance with the idea that a memory may be treasured — a mental keepsake — but also a placemarker for something departed. A memory is perhaps what the mind has left of something the individual has lost; sometimes it is all we have left.

Publication details

Published in:

Groes Sebastian (2016) Memory in the twenty-first century: new critical perspectives from the arts, humanities, and sciences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 63-66

DOI: 10.1057/9781137520586_7

Full citation:

Childs Peter (2016) „Memory and the fictional imagination: creating memories“, In: S. Groes (ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 63–66.