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Memory and Forgetfulness: From Psychoanalysis to Neuroscience

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The interweaving of forgetfullness with memory explains the silence of neuroscience on disturbing and ambivalent experience of ordinary forget-fullness. Eve Suzanne poses a question: can neurobiology explain the functioning of psychic life ? In short, we can admit that we are not determined by our neurons.

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Lexcellent, C. (2019). Memory and Forgetfulness: From Psychoanalysis to Neuroscience. In: Human Memory and Material Memory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99543-4_8

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