”A traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims.” (Rothschild, 2000)
Memories are more than just a documentation of yesterday. Some of them can be important to us and reoccurring, some can be a point in which our lives changed drastically, while others are usually forgotten a week later. When remembering them they usually are tied to some kind of emotion, such as trauma, joy and happiness or nostalgia. They allow us to view things and relate to them on a collective level through culture, society and emotion. In particular I look at traumatic memories and the effects they have. I …show more content…
However the concept of memory isn’t so simple, but complex in that even while memory is our own it can be perceived on a collective level. Memory can be a collective that is understood through the senses, societal philosophies, ideologies and every day or life changing events. Memory is one of the most vital of our facilities, as Scanlon (2008) explains that we are born with memory. Right from the beginning we learn to associate feelings, senses and experiences with memory and in turn form our identities as a …show more content…
Gibbons (2007) discusses how memory is valued and represented in art in Ancient Greece, in contrast with contemporary art. The Ancient Greeks invented many styles of art, one in particular being the art of memory. This concept was passed on to Rome and became part of European tradition. To the Greeks, memory as the recovery of divine knowledge of the ideal world or recording of experimental knowledge. The art of memory was a concept of retaining memory through mnemonic principles to organize memory impressions, improve recall and assist in the invention of ideas. This was the beginning of a type of art which was a style much different and to the renaissance movement or middle ages painting styles of that time. The art of memory, or Memorial art, is still evident in contemporary art today as we recall and organize our memories to create and explore genres of art. While contemporary philosophers in Western culture had already begun to see the importance of memory and shift towards subjective memory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new theories and understandings of memory began to crop
Memories are more than just a documentation of yesterday. Some of them can be important to us and reoccurring, some can be a point in which our lives changed drastically, while others are usually forgotten a week later. When remembering them they usually are tied to some kind of emotion, such as trauma, joy and happiness or nostalgia. They allow us to view things and relate to them on a collective level through culture, society and emotion. In particular I look at traumatic memories and the effects they have. I …show more content…
However the concept of memory isn’t so simple, but complex in that even while memory is our own it can be perceived on a collective level. Memory can be a collective that is understood through the senses, societal philosophies, ideologies and every day or life changing events. Memory is one of the most vital of our facilities, as Scanlon (2008) explains that we are born with memory. Right from the beginning we learn to associate feelings, senses and experiences with memory and in turn form our identities as a …show more content…
Gibbons (2007) discusses how memory is valued and represented in art in Ancient Greece, in contrast with contemporary art. The Ancient Greeks invented many styles of art, one in particular being the art of memory. This concept was passed on to Rome and became part of European tradition. To the Greeks, memory as the recovery of divine knowledge of the ideal world or recording of experimental knowledge. The art of memory was a concept of retaining memory through mnemonic principles to organize memory impressions, improve recall and assist in the invention of ideas. This was the beginning of a type of art which was a style much different and to the renaissance movement or middle ages painting styles of that time. The art of memory, or Memorial art, is still evident in contemporary art today as we recall and organize our memories to create and explore genres of art. While contemporary philosophers in Western culture had already begun to see the importance of memory and shift towards subjective memory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new theories and understandings of memory began to crop