Psychology is the dogma of our age; psychotherapy is our means of
self-understanding; and "repressed memory" is now a universally
familiar form of trauma. Jeffrey Prager, who is both a sociologist
and a psychoanalyst, explores the degree to which we manifest the
cliches of our culture in our most private recollections.
At the core of "Presenting the Past" is the dramatic and
troubling case of a woman who during the course of her analysis
began to recall scenes of her own childhood sexual abuse. Later the
patient came to believe that the trauma she remembered as a
physical violation might have been an emotional violation and that
she had composed a memory out of present and past relationships.
But what was accurate and true? And what evidence could be
persuasive and valuable? Could the analyst trust either her
convictions or his own? Using this case and others, Prager explores
the nature of memory and its relation to the interpersonal,
therapeutic, and cultural worlds in which remembering occurs.
Synthesizing research from social science, psychoanalysis,
neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, Prager uses clinical
examples to argue more generally that our memories are never simple
records of events, but constantly evolving constructions, affected
by contemporary culture as well as by our own private lives. He
demonstrates the need that sociology has for the insights of
psychoanalysis, and the need that psychoanalysis has for the
insights of sociology.
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