Posted by Seb Blanc on February 20, 19104 at 11:43:53:

In Reply to: Re: Proustian Involuntary Memory posted by White-Beard on August 07, 1998 at 22:30:57:

: : 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.

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