Memory and Understanding
Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
This theory of concept formation, remembering, and understanding is applied to Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu , with special attention to the author’s excursions into philosophical and aesthetic issues. Under this perspective, Proust’s work can be seen as an artistic exploration into our capacity of understanding, whereby the unconscious, the memory, is exteriorized in consciousness by presenting the experienced episodes in the conceptual order of similarity and contiguity through our capacity of concept formation. (Series A)
Published online on 1 July 2008
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–ix
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I. Introduction: Concept formation, memory, and understanding
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1. On what there is not | p. 2
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2. On what there is | p. 6
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3. Memory and remembering | p. 17
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4. Understanding | p. 21
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5. How memory works in understanding | p. 27
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II. Memory
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1. The architecture of memory | p. 31
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2. Remembering, structured from out the episodic memory base | p. 41
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3. The architecture of remembrance and deficiencies of memory | p. 53
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4. The Role of memory in understanding | p. 61
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III. Concept formation, remembrance, and understanding
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1. Bergson and Proust. | p. 65
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2. Bergson on memory, perception, action, and understanding | p. 67
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3. Individual and general concepts in Proust’s novel | p. 76
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4. The method of the author | p. 89
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5. Individual concepts of places and objects | p. 92
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6. The Past in the Present: Time Regained and timeless order | p. 96
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7. The aesthetic experience | p. 106
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8. The home ground: Habits, routines, and general concepts | p. 134
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IV. Epilogue: The conscious and the unconscious
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Index | pp. 153–158
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