Meaning of cryptamnesia | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“How much is cryptamnesia-confabulation, how much frontal-lobe indifference-equalisation, how much some strange schizophrenic disintegration and shattering-flattening?”

“And although [Sigmund] Freud claimed that others’ ideas were of no use⟳ to him unless they came at a time when he was ready for them, he proved enormously susceptible to their influence⟳ and even noted his own⟳ tendency to ‘cryptamnesia’, by which he ‘unconsciously’ contrived to forget⟳ his intellectual debts.”

“While apparent regressions into past lives can often easily be shown to be constructions based on cryptamnesia[…], this is by no means always the case. In 1987, one hypnotherapy client experienced an apparent 'past life' as a submariner who died with his ship in 1942; he provided detailed names and dates that could be confirmed from the records of the naval base⟳ where he was supposed to have⟳ served[…]. If we insist on a Darwinian account, these phenomena must be examples of cryptamnesia, suggestion or fraud.”

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