The Narrative of Memory: Repression in Storytelling

Tell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2

Memory's misuse in storytelling

I made a second season because I wondered - why, if the recovered memory movement is over, do so many people still believe in repressed memories?

Season 2 is for you if:

-you love books, movies or otherwise escaping into a story

-you think about memory and forgetting

-you think about why we think about what we think about...

-you liked Season 1

-you like learning about debunked beliefs.

Please join me, won't you, once again, in The Memory Hole.

Featuring

Andromeda Romano-Lax

-Her Present Tense Substack, featuring the recent post Do We Care About How Memory Really Works? Amnesia, "useful" unreliability, and the return of the Memory Wars

-Her novel, The Deepest Lake

Kat Rosenfield

-Her Substack

-Her novel, You must remember this

Sources

Jonathan Lethem’s Vintage Book of Amnesia 

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Bourne Identity

Memento

Repressed memories in film

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