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Forgetting (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a content losing its energic value — not lost, since it may surface decades later in dreams, hypnosis or cryptomnesia.

Forgetting (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is genuine leaves nothing that strives to return — it is complexes, not forgotten ideas, that live latently below the threshold and push to displace the others.

Forgetting (n.) extinguishes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing: wipe ten years from the memories of a man who lived and a man who read a thousand books, and you can still tell which one read them.

Forgetting (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠conscious content sinking back into the unconscious when it loses its intensity; the unconscious is never at rest — a ceaseless welling-up, not an island's stable sea.

Forgetting (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠come not from repression above but from attraction below: a not-yet-conscious content pulls related ideas into eclipse — so the vague feeling of having overlooked something is worth a closer look.

Forgetting (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like a searchlight moving on: interest lights a new area and leaves the old in the dark, where it waits, sometimes for years, to rise again.