“It is precipitated not by a mechanical breakdown but by the descent of an emotional block . Its gravest form , which science has come to call fugue, embraces three classically dramatic phases. The first of these is a brief interval of complete dissociation , closely resembling somnambulism . This is eventually followed by a period of lighened oblivion, in which only certain facts and events remain beyond the reach of the victim. The final stage, which may occur spontaneously or as a result of psychiatric manipulatin, is a return to full-functioning consciousness. But, whatever its pattern, an attack of functional amnesia is seldom susceptible to either a ready or a reassuring explanation.” This is a passage from Berton Rouech é s classic article on the fugue, Lost, which was published in 1954 in the New Yorker. Historians have long been fascinated by collective memory, following in the trail first marked out by Maurice Hallwachs in The Collective Frameworks of Memory
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