The Arche-trace (n.) is a contradiction the logic of identity cannot accept, so it must be written and then erased.
The Arche-trace (n.) is an origin that did not even disappear: it was constituted only by a non-origin, so the trace becomes the origin of the origin.
The Archi-trace (n.) survives only as an erased archia, and that erasure keeps the archia legible.
Engram (n.) are function-traces: the imprints left by the most frequently and intensely used functions of the human psyche since time immemorial, which reappear as mythological motifs among all races.
A Memory trace (n.) is often most powerful and enduring when the event that left it never entered consciousness at all.
A Memory trace (n.) may turn out to have no counterpart: people may come to hold that no copy in the nervous system corresponds to a thought, idea or memory.
A Memory trace (n.) is never wholly lost by the brain, though consciousness constantly discards impressions as a bank destroys old notes; in abnormal states such traces return with photographic fidelity, as when dying servants recited Greek heard in youth.