reminiscence
Reminiscence ( Latin reminisci "to remember") is a term for a memory or an echo of something earlier.
Reminiscence research used to be a special branch of learning research that examined the conditions under which performance improvements could be achieved using certain rest periods.
Concept history
The term was mainly used in the written language until the beginning of the 20th century. For example, Bertha von Suttner wrote in her novel The Arms at the end of the 19th century :
"I realized too late that the zeal for battle is not superhuman but subhuman, not a mystical revelation, but a reminiscence from the realm of beastliness, a reawakening of bestiality."
Today the term is not used as often in this sense. In parlance, it is still used synonymously for a kind of homage . In contrast to the homage, this mostly refers to smaller references and memories within the work of art. While the term homage already implies a certain admiration , reminiscences tend to be reminiscent of something that shouldn't be forgotten. The two terms cannot be clearly distinguished from one another.
Painters , directors , sculptors and composers remember in their works sometimes by reminiscences of deceased colleagues while keeping them in an artistic way quote . Also concerts and sporting events held as reminiscent of famous predecessors.
Literary studies
In literary studies one speaks of a reminiscence when at one point in a work an echo of a formulation from a work by another author is recognizable, so that one notices that the author knew the older work and alludes to it or is inspired by it let.
operetta
In 20th century operetta, reminiscence is a brief recurrence of a song or its refrain towards the end of the work. This way, the characters are reminded of the decisive feelings of the story, but the viewer is reminded of the most important "hits" of the piece. In the early 20th century, the final acts of the works often consisted almost exclusively of reminiscences of almost all the main songs from the previous acts.
psychology
In psychology , reminiscence is called remembering during a second attempt to remember an item that was not yet remembered during the first attempt to remember.
Church year
Derived from reminiscence is Sunday Reminiszere or Reminiscere as fast Sunday and the second Sunday before Easter Lent or lying Lent (ie five weeks before Easter). The name of the Sunday Reminiscere is derived from the beginning of the Latin antiphon of the introitus: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et misericordiarum tuarum quae e saeculo sunt. (Ps 25, 6) Cf. Oculi , Laetare , Judica , Palmarum .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ PB Ballard: Obliviscence and reminiscence . In: Brit. Journal Psychologie-Prof., Monograph. Soup., 1913, I No. 2. In: Wilhelm Arnold, Jürgen Eysenck, Richard Meili: Lexikon der Psychologie . Freiburg 1972, Volume 3, under: Reminiscence