Proust and Ribot

No trace beyond their name? Affective Memories, a forgotten concept

“…Notwithstanding the short period of time of this discussion, the idea of affective memory overflowed from the academic journals into literature: for example, Proust's masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, (1913-1927) 6 ; and La mémoire du coeur (1907), written by one of Ribot's correspondents (see Alden, 1943). It also inspired a few empirical studies, such as the work of the American psychologist Kate Gordon (1878Gordon ( -1963 on the recollection of pleasant and unpleasant odours (Gordon, 1925).…”