Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri HustvedtMemory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtMemory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri Hustvedt