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n. a repressed memory, sometimes one of sexual abuse
Usage examples of "recovered memory".
The Thinking Machine was disappointed because his patient had not recovered memory with consciousness.
And then when you explained about Recovered Memory Syndrome and suggested I see Dr Huxtable, well, I wanted to do it at once even though I didn't admit it either to myself or to you, John.
By now, Jerle had exhausted what little there was of his recovered memory, and there was nothing for any of them to do but to press on until something in Bremen's vision recalled itself.
But this did not lead naturally to 'death': they were rehabilitated and reborn and eventually recovered memory of all their past: they remained 'identical'.
In one moment of recovered memory, I knew exactly what had led to this moment.
Dhalgren is not a comforting book, but it is I think a great one g a secret history, a recovered memory of a time that was not, in 1974, our own.