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The French love memory. Proust's masterpiece was A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, In Search of Lost Time or The Remembrance of Things Past, as it's most often translated. The French philosopher Henri Bergson" wrote a tome entitled Matter and Memory in which he distinguishes between "habitual" and "pure memory." Freud said dreams were "the royal road to the unconscious" and Bergson showed how certain kinds of mnemonic processes, perhaps like the Proustian madeleine, go beyond either the "habitual" ...