The ''Infinite Subject'' Remembrance/Memory. Using the example of Theodor Storms ''The Dykemaster''

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the Western attempts to grasp memory and remembrance - and works out the fact that all concepts are based on a non-retrievable infinity, undermining any attempt to represent memory as an unity. This applies to the early concept of the muse call in the ancient Greek literature (mnesmosyne), for Plato''s concept of recollection (anamnesis), the rhetorical concept of mnemonics as for all later conceptualizations of memory, which are based on these three models.

In addition, the essay takes the example of Theodor Storm''s novella "The Dykemaster" and provides evidence of the appropriate constellation of unity and infinity of remembering in this text.

Keywords

• remembrance / memory
• theory of memory
• muses call
• mnemosyne
• anamnesis
• mnemonics
• Strom
• Theodor
• The Dykemaster