Diseases of memory : an essay in the positive psychology / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the French by William Huntington Smith.

  • Ribot, Th. (Théodule), 1839-1916.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Diseases of memory : an essay in the positive psychology / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the French by William Huntington Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    I.—Memoey as a Biological Fact 9 Memory is essentially a biological fact, accidentally a psy- chical fact—Organic memory—Seat of memory—Modifica- tions of nervous elements; dynamical associations be- tween these elements—Conscious memory—Conditions of consciousness : intensity ; duration—Unconscious cerebra- tion—Nervous action is the fundamental condition of per- ception ; consciousness is only an accessory—Localization in the past, or recollection—Mechanism of this operation —It is not a simple and instantaneous act; it consists of the addition of secondary states of consciousness to the principal state of consciousness—Memory is a vision in time—Localization, theoretical and practical—Keference points—Resemblance and difference between localization in the future and in the past—All memory an illusion— Forgetfulness a condition of memory—Return to the open- ing proposition: conscious memory tends little by little to become automatic. II.—General Amnesia 69 Classification of the diseases of memory—Temporary amne- sia—Epileptics—Forgetfulness of certain periods of life— Examples of re-education—Slow and sudden recoveries— Case of provisional memory—Periodical or intermittent amnesia—Formation of two memories, totally or partially, distinct—Hypnotism—Progressive amnesia—Its impor- tance : reveals the law which governs the destruction of memory—Law of regression ; enunciation of this law—In