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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Psychology, Pathological Memory Association of ideas Repression (Psychology) Psychoanalysis Medical / Psychiatry / General Psychology / General Psychology / Cognitive Psychology Psychology / Mental Illness Psychology / Psychopathology / General Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FORGETTING OF NAMES AND ORDER OF WORDS Ill FORGETTING OF NAMES AND ORDER OF WORDS Experiences like those mentioned concerning the process of forgetting a part of the order of words from a foreign language may cause one to wonder whether the forgetting of the order of words in one's own language requires an essentially different explanation. To be sure, one is not wont to be surprised if after awhile a formula or poem learned by heart can only be reproduced imperfectly, with variations and gaps. Still, as this forgetting does not affect equally all the things learned together, but seems to pick out therefrom definite parts, it may be worth our effort to investigate analytically some examples of such faulty reproductions. Brill reports the following example: -- While conversing one day with a very brilliant young woman she had occasion to quote from Keats. The poem was entitled ' Ode to Apollo, ' and she recited the following lines: -- ' In thy western house of gold Where thou livest in thy state, Bards, that once sublimely told Prosaic truths that came too late.' She hesitated many times during the recitation, being sure that there was something wrong with the last line. To her great surprise, on referring to the book she found that not only was the last line...

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