The pre-reflective roots of the \(\it madeleine\)-memory
- This paper investigates the \(\it madeleine\)-memory (so-called from Proust's novel \(\textit {In Search of Lost Time}\)) as a case of pre-reflective experience, from the genesis of its sedimentation into the body. Indeed, I aim to address the question of the literary protagonist Marcel on the roots of his happiness and the genesis of his memories. Until now, the \(\it madeleine\)-memory has been described as bodily and involuntary. In phenomenology, a wide literature has confirmed the relationship between the sense of body ownership and pre-reflective self-awareness. I aim to build upon such a mutual link and show that the pre-reflective roots of the \(\it madeleine\)-memory have to be traced back to the genesis of the involuntary recollections. To this purpose, I will illustrate that the epistemological relationship between the object and the subject plays a relevant role in the way the subject remembers. First, I will present that \(\it madeleine\)-memory is a unique case of bodily memory, by analyzing the main features that characterize it. Secondly, I will analyze the original experience of the \(\it madeleine\) within the phenomenological logic of \(\textit {transcendence in immanence}\). For this aim, I will rely on the Husserlian notions of "epistemological inadequacy of perception" and "background experiences". Through these notions, I will show that Proustian involuntary recollections are pre-reflective experiences because previously subjects have pre-reflectively experienced the content of recollections.
Author: | Francesca RighettiORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-100819 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-021-09774-7 |
Parent Title (English): | Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences |
Subtitle (English): | a phenomenological perspective |
Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. |
Place of publication: | Dordrecht |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/08/02 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/09/15 |
Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
Tag: | Bodily memory; Embodiment; Husserl; Phenomenology; Prerefective self-awareness; Proustian memory |
Volume: | 22 |
First Page: | 479 |
Last Page: | 499 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Springer-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
Institutes/Facilities: | Mercator Forschergruppe "Strukturen des Gedächtnisses" |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Philosophie |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |