All 10 Uses
amnesia
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Alias Grace
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- He said you are well up on cerebral diseases and nervous afflictions, and that in matters concerning amnesia you are on your way to becoming a leading expert.†
Chpt 4 *amnesia = loss of memory
- But in cases of amnesia" — he gives a faint smile — "they have frequently produced astounding, and, I may say, very rapid results."†
Chpt 4
- Lost memories lie down there like sunken treasure, to be retrieved piecemeal, if at all; and amnesia itself may be in effect a sort of dreaming in reverse; a drowning of recollection, a plunging under.... Behind his back the door opens: his breakfast is making its entrance.†
Chpt 6
- "This was followed," he continues, "by an episode of fainting, and then by hysterics, mixed with what would appear to have been somnambulism; after which there was a deep and prolonged sleep, and subsequent amnesia."†
Chpt 7
- They are nearing the blank mystery, the area of erasure; they are entering the forest of amnesia, where things have lost their names.†
Chpt 9
- Pioneer work was constantly going forward; here he would like to mention the courageous Dr. Charcot of Paris, who had recently dedicated himself to the study of hysterics; and the investigation of dreams as a key to diagnosis, and their relation to amnesia, to which he himself hoped in time to make a modest contribution.†
Chpt 9
- Is it a real case of amnesia, of the somnambulistic type, or is he the victim of a cunning imposture?†
Chpt 9
- It may well be that Grace is a true amnesiac.†
Chpt 9amnesiac = someone who has lost their memory
- "Grace's amnesia seems genuine enough," says Simon, "or so I have come to believe, in the light of my previous clinical experience.†
Chpt 12amnesia = loss of memory
- As a result of this session and the astonishing revelations it produced, Dr. Jordan gave it as his opinion that Grace Marks' loss of memory was genuine, not feigned — that on the fatal day she was suffering from the effects of an hysterical seizure brought on by fright, which resulted in a form of auto-hypnotic somnambulism, not much studied twenty-five years ago but well documented since; and that this fact explains her subsequent amnesia.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(amnesia) loss of memory (partial or total)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)