Comments on: On forgetting and having to learn again http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/2008/11/21/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/ A Seductress's Journal Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Laura Gonzalez http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/2008/11/21/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/comment-page-1/#comment-238 Laura Gonzalez Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:03:36 +0000 http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/#comment-238 Haha, you know? Lacan was not interested in forgetting so my darwinian friend wouldn't really know. I've already consulted his dictionary! Haha, you know? Lacan was not interested in forgetting so my darwinian friend wouldn’t really know. I’ve already consulted his dictionary!

]]> By: David Griffin http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/2008/11/21/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/comment-page-1/#comment-237 David Griffin Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/#comment-237 Ask your Darwinian friends -- they will explain. Ask your Darwinian friends — they will explain.

]]> By: Laura Gonzalez http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/2008/11/21/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Laura Gonzalez Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:52:29 +0000 http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/#comment-236 The forgetting Freud talks about is always related to the mind, not the body. He does talk, however about unintended acts. I wonder why no-one has thought about joining the two - forgetting actions? Maybe there something for me to do there, another self experiment... My driving was horrendous for someone with a license and my skiing was OK, but after a week. You are right, though, my body may remember those things but something in my repressed mind is not letting it. Fear and anxiety have something to do with it, sure, but fear and anxiety of what? The forgetting Freud talks about is always related to the mind, not the body. He does talk, however about unintended acts. I wonder why no-one has thought about joining the two – forgetting actions? Maybe there something for me to do there, another self experiment…

My driving was horrendous for someone with a license and my skiing was OK, but after a week. You are right, though, my body may remember those things but something in my repressed mind is not letting it. Fear and anxiety have something to do with it, sure, but fear and anxiety of what?

]]> By: Neil Scott http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/2008/11/21/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Neil Scott Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:30:58 +0000 http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/on-forgetting-and-having-to-learn-again/#comment-235 I don't believe that the forgetting they are talking about has anything to do with the forgetting of muscle memory. Your driving isn't too bad, your skiing is okay -- your body remembers both of these things. Rather, I think, your fear and anxiety gets in the way. I don’t believe that the forgetting they are talking about has anything to do with the forgetting of muscle memory. Your driving isn’t too bad, your skiing is okay — your body remembers both of these things. Rather, I think, your fear and anxiety gets in the way.

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