Oblivion

Synopsis

“Remembering or forgetting is doing gardener’s work, selecting, pruning. Memories are like there are those that need to be quickly eliminated in order to help the others burgeon, transform, flower.” For the health of the psyche and the culture, for the individual and the whole society, oblivion is as necessary as memory. One must know how to forget, Marc Augé suggests, not just to live fully in the present but also to comprehend the past.