![]() ![]() Instead, the “hypermnesic” (inability to forget) would be pure retention, pure nostalgia. Amnesia is presented as a lightness, a source of creativity and freedom. This quote by Nietzsche perfectly illustrates the thesis of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a beautiful philosophical movie of the 90’s, along Gattaca. Against Locke and most philosophers, who considers the memory as the foundation of identity and thus the stability of the individual, Eternal Sunshine supports to the Nietzsche’s thesis that forgetting is vital to humans, memory, and thereby the memories it accumulates, weighs about man and paralyzes his action. ‘ In the smallest as in the greatest happiness, there is always something that make happiness is happiness: the ability to forget, or to say it more scholarly, the ability to feel for a time outside history ‘ ( Nietzsche, Seconds Considerations)
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