Turning around on experience: The 'expanded view' of memory within psychology

摘要

In this article, we argue that emergent interests in social interaction, wider context and culture with regards to memory have united formerly disparate approaches within the discipline of psychology, namely, that from the discursive and experimental cognitive paradigms. Here, we develop the argument on the centrality of interaction and continuity and present an expanded approach that is best able to incorporate distressing events, which we call Vital Memory'. We argue here that this perspective provides an analysis of continuity and interactional dynamics, while not losing sight of what is ethically at stake when individuals remember, especially where memories that are vital to a sense of self in the present are concerned. This perspective encourages a view that treats memory as emerging through the ongoing flow of experience, across time, space and narrative.