: What do you think is meant by "Proustian Involuntary Memory?'
Possibly the type of memory psychologists refer to a redintegration which is "the process of reconstructing a entire complex memory after observing or remembering only a part of it." "Many people find that such memories are also touched off by distinctive odors out of the past--from a farm visited in childhood, Grandma's kitchen...The key idea in redintegration is that one memory serves as a cue to trigger another." As a result, an entire past experience may be reconstituted from one small recollection." The above comes from INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: EXPLORATION AND APPLICATION, 7th ed. by Dennis Coon, Phd.
Proust's work is based on the smell of a small cookie dipped in tea, and that triggers everything that follows. By the way, I'm about 2/3 of the way through Book IV, Cities of the Plain.