forgetting, n.All

Forgetting is a limitation that protects the human being from the blinding light of absolute historical memory.

Forgetting is an intensely active gap whereby, for instance, when one forgets a name the forgotten thing is not wholly absent, but persist as a kind of ghost, beckoning us, making us tingle with closeness.

Forgetting is a limitation that protects the human being from the blinding light of absolute historical memory and is an attribute boldly chosen by the philosopher in order to avoid falling into the trap of 'historical knowledge'.

Forgetting is an attribute boldly chosen by the philosopher in order to avoid falling into the trap of 'historical knowledge'.

Doorways can cause memory lapses. That is why sometimes when we walk into another room, we often forget why we even came there.

Forgetting is an active and in the strictest sense positive faculty of repression.

Forgetting is a pathology of communication: A failure to communicate with oneself that forms a particular system with misunderstanding.

If smoking marijuana causes short term memory loss...Than what does smoking marijuana do?

If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?

Forgetting is far greater and more structural than remembering.

Forgetting is closing the doors and windows of consciousness for a time, remaining undisturbed by the noise, providing for a little quietness, a little tabula rasa of the consciousness, to make room for a new thing.