Week 1 Blog Question Schacter & Milton
Question: Drawing from (quoting) a passage from Ch. 7 of Schacter and Milton (or Borges), what connection can you make between loss and memory or loss and emotion? Said another way, what does Milton allow us to say about Schacter, or Schacter about Milton, that we couldn’t get reading either alone? Response: Ch. 7 of Schacter deals with the pain associated with the persistence of a terrible memory. One that for example Donnie Moore wished he could forget, however the mechanisms of his brain would not allow for. “With the passing of time, Angel’s players and fans eventually recovered from the deflating loss. But Donnie Moore never did. He was haunted, sometimes overwhelmed, by the memory of Henderson’s home run.” If only he could have forgotten the moment completely, the feeling of shame, regret and utter confusion attached to this seemingly impossible loss. It appears that Moore’s emotional connection to the memory was so powerful; that it would not ...