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cryptomnesia

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cryptomnesia
the occurrence in consciousness of images not recognized as produced by the memory and its storage of events and scènes. — cryptomnesic, adj.
See also: Memory


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Skeptics, however, say PLR is merely cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, as well as confabulations, or the formation of "memories" that are false, on the part of the person being hypnotized.
Key concepts: Cassatt, Mary creative writing cryptomnesia Jonker, Ingrid mirror images Plath, Sylvia Kernbegrippe: Cassatt, Mary Jonker, Ingrid kreatiewe skryfwerk kriptomnesie Plath, Sylvia spieelbeelde 1.
It seems then that we can not rule out that this reference has uncovered one of those bits of cryptomnesia," wrote the encrypted Freud, "which in so many cases may be supposed to lie behind a seeming originality.
 
 
 
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