Memory and imagination
Siri Hustvedt:
In a 1995 essay on memory, ‘Yonder,’ I wrote the following sentence: ‘Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.’ It seemed to me fifteen years ago, and still seems to me today, that the mental activity we call memory and what we call the imagination partake of the same mental processes. They are both bound up with emotion and, when conscious, they often take the form of stories. Emotion, memory, imagination, story — all vital to our subjective mental landscapes, central to literature and psychoanalysis and, much more recently, hot topics in the neurosciences.
Living, Thinking, Looking, p. 175
