Memory and Localization
Taking biology seriously presents a biological view of man (where movement, history, context, and the environment sway the balance) and reveals some of the attendant factors of having a body. It is not simply that the idea of localization of function could be faulty, it is rather that the basic assumption that memories are carefully filed and stored fixed traces, seems hardly able to withstand the evidence against it any longer. In his “The invention of memory,” Rosenfield (1988) associates the whole problematic, in the first place, with a misreading of the evidence. Freud had meant it differently, he has only been bypassed.
