Hi, Diana,
You posed a very interesting question. I take it as another aspect of
"mind-body" problem. Accoding to Freud memories about sexual experience are
never lost even in cases of complete amnesia. But I don't belong to Freud's
club, and all my research experience promts me that we can make an
assumption that amnesia can influence sexual memories, such as paticular
events, feelings and emotions, and personal awareness about his/her own
self. I can develop the idea but i don't want to interrupt the current most
interesting discussion on the list. I can only add that A.Damasio's books
"Decart's Error" and "The Filling of What Happens" may give you many
interesting (scientificully based) ideas for your novel.
I believe it will be a great success.
Tatiana.
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> От: Diane Hodges <dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu>
> Кому: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Тема: amnesia and sexuality
> Дата: 16 августа 2000 г. 5:49
>
> ...aaaaand out of nowhere, here she comes, ta-da-dum, ta-da-dum,
> tssssssssssss!
>
> ok. i'm writing a fiction novel about a women with amnesia -
> i've done a lot of research in amnesia and memory research, but nothing
on
> memory and sexuality -
>
> does anyone know of anything that deals with amnesia and sexuality?
> (like, can a person forget they are straight or gay or bi-; fall in love
> and then years
> later, recover past memories and remember a different sexual preferenced
> lifestyle?)
> i don't know if i'm asking "can it happen" so much as has it been written
> about?
>
> any help at all would be great. thanks. i know all we DO here is talk
> about sexuality, yawn,
> it must be such a BORE to keep harping on sex and gender, ha ha ha ha
> ha(she laffed maniacally) but if someone has a suggestion re resources,
> i'd be ever-so-obliged.
> thanks,
> diane
>
> **********************************************************************
> :point where everything listens.
> and i slow down, learning how to
> enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
>
> (Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
> ***********************************************************************
>
> diane celia hodges
>
> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction
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> university of colorado, denver, school of education
>
> Diane_Hodges@ceo.cudenver.edu
>
>
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