The Fragile Truth Memory Identity And The Stories We Tell
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The Fragile Truth: Memory, Identity, and the Stories We Tell
What if the truth you remember… was never quite what happened? In The Fragile Truth, psychologist Fay Jackson unpacks the fascinating, fallible nature of memory—and how it shapes who we are. Blending cognitive science with moving human stories, Jackson explores how memories are formed, rewritten, and sometimes invented, all in service of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. From childhood recollections to identity-defining moments, this book reveals how memory is less a record of the past and more a construction of the present—malleable, emotional, and deeply personal. Insightful and often surprising, The Fragile Truth challenges what we think we know about our own minds. Our memories may be fragile—but their power is undeniable.
Women, Identity and Religion in Wales
Author: Manon Ceridwen James
language: en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date: 2018-02-15
It is a study of the relationship between identity and religion in women’s lives in Wales today. It will help the reader have a better and more comprehensive understanding of the religious context in Wales to the present day. It will introduce the reader to theological and religious themes as well as reflections on identity in the work of several key female Welsh writers – Menna Elfyn, Jasmine Donahaye, Jam Morris, Charlotte Williams and Mererid Hopwood. It will help the reader to engage with issues of Welsh identity and religion and gain insight into challenges facing the churches today and engage with the lived experience of women in Wales.
Memories and Representations of Terror
Author: Daniel Feierstein
language: en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date: 2023-10-06
Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide explores how memories and representations shape our understanding of historical events, particularly the ways in which societies create narratives about genocide and its aftermath, using Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and its contested legacy as a case study. Feierstein examines how memories and representations of genocide are the terrain in which both the strategic objectives of genocide and the possibilities of challenging those objectives are contested. These memories and representations provide the foundation upon which critical judgments about the past are constructed and offer the potential for assuming responsibility and working through the consequences of genocide. This book proposes that terror continues to hijack the actions and identities of surviving societies via a process of the construction of memories and social representations of the lived experience in a final stage of genocide Feierstein terms "symbolic enactment". In doing so, Feierstein examines the contributions of various disciplines to comprehending memory processes and social representations. It covers a range of topics, from the nature of memory based on the neuroscientific discoveries of the last half-century to psychoanalytic theories on the functioning of the mind, including the role of psychic defense mechanisms, the unconscious mind, collective pacts of denial and different forms of desensitization. It also explores historiographical debates between forms of history and forms of memory, as well as sociological contributions to the analysis of social frames of memory, cultural memory, generational transmission and related issues. The first volume of a three-volume work that aims to identify and evaluate the various consequences of genocidal social practices and the possibility of healing the scars left on individuals’ subjectivities and the social fabric by genocide. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in genocide, collective memory and identity.