In Plato’s vision of the afterlife, souls must drink  from the rivers  of both Mnemosyne and Lethe, Memory and Forgetfulness, before they can be reborn. Many myths from different cultures echo this vital duality. Yet  today’s psychological theories,  forgetting is often pathologised, and clinical practice  may often be based in the assumption that to remember is in itself healing.

This seminar explores this bias, and the vital role of forgetting in psychic life.

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