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I've been reading / listening about the work of Oliver Sachs, a psychologist who researches memory and forgettfulness. One of his patients, named clive, suffered a severe fever that damaged his brain, so that his short and long term memory was made impossible. The feelings around memories, however seemed to remain. He was hospitalized but allowed a phone with important numbers written beside it. He called his wife every ten minutes saying the same thing, "darling, darling, I don't know anything about this. I don't want to talk to anyone but you...but I haven't seen you yet. I haven't seen you, but you must come as soon as you can..." etc.
Sachs and others claim his case points to feelings of love and horror as being primal and diffuse in the structure of the brain, therefore, hard to erase. I played it several times: "I haven't seen you yet", as if it would be a renewal.
as ever,
e
Sachs and others claim his case points to feelings of love and horror as being primal and diffuse in the structure of the brain, therefore, hard to erase. I played it several times: "I haven't seen you yet", as if it would be a renewal.
as ever,
e