![]() ![]() ![]() Gradually, we can bring the once-feared memory to mind without feeling the rush of distress all over again. ![]() If at the time of the fear we tell ourselves something that eases its grip, then the same memory becomes reencoded with less power over us. But the high road can bring reason to the low. If we merely have a flare-up of the same fear, we deepen our fearfulness. The specifics of the new consolidation depend on what we learn as we recall it. At the cellular level, LeDoux explains, retrieving a memory means it will be “reconsolidated,” slightly altered chemically by a new protein synthesis that will help store it anew after being updated.40 Thus each time we bring a memory to mind, we adjust its very chemistry: the next time we retrieve it, that memory will come up as we last modified it. Whenever we retrieve a memory, the brain rewrites it a bit, updating the past according to our present concerns and understanding. ![]() “Our memories are in part reconstructions. ― Jacques Derrida, quote from Of Grammatology We must begin wherever we are and the thought of the trace, which cannot take the scent into account, has already taught of the trace, which cannot not take the scent into account, has already taught us that it was impossible to justify a point of departure absolutely, Wherever we are: in a text where we already believe ourselves to be.” The scandal is that the sign, the image, or the representer, become forces and make "the world move". This substitution always has the form of the sign. In it everything is brought together: Progress as the possibility of perversion, regression toward an evil that is not natural and that adheres to the power of substitution, that permits us to absent ourselves and act by proxy, through the hands of others. The supplement will always be the moving of the tongue or acting through the hands of others. The sign is always the supplement of the thing itself. If it represents and makes an image, it is by the anterior default of a presence. It intervenes or insinuates itself in-the-place-of if it fills, it is as one fills a void. The supplement adds itself, it is a surplus, a plenitude enriching another plenitude, the fullest measure of presence. “For the concept of the supplement - which here determines that of the representative image - harbors within itself two significations whose cohabitation is as strange as it is necessary. Goldratt See more on GoodReads Popular quotes ![]()
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