The Future Potential: Ex-isting between Archives and the Mind-Body-Complex Structure
Resource
中外文學, 42(2), 019-063
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
42
Journal Issue
2
Pages
019-063
Date Issued
2013-06
Date
2013-06
Author(s)
Chen, Y.
Abstract
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.
Subjects
檔案，記憶，時間，身心機制，佛洛伊德精神分析
archive, memory, temporality, body-mind-complex apparatus, Freudian
psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis
Type
journal article