Interlude LXXXII: Memory | Endel Tulving, Frederic Bartlett, Collective Remembrance, and the Reconstruction of Identity

Podcast: The Observable Unknown · Dr. Juan Carlos Rey

Opublikowano: 2026-07-30

Do we remember the past as it happened, or as the person we’ve become now needs to understand it? In Interlude LXXXII of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines memory as both a private experience and a shared cultural force. Drawing on the work of Endel Tulving and Frederic Bartlett, the episode explores episodic memory, semantic memory, reconstructive remembering, collective memory, identity formation, family narratives, and the stories people build around what happened. Memory is often described as an archive. An event occurs, the mind stores it, and years later we retrieve th...