What has been written on the connection between memory and
consciousness? I am specially interested in a Sartrian approach.

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Clarification of Question by swt-ga on 20 Sep 2002 16:02 PDT

Clarification: I am looking for academic articles on the subject. I
have already tried search terms like memory consciousness and sartre
on google.

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Request for Question Clarification by secret901-ga on 20 Sep 2002 16:25 PDT

Are you looking for citings of what have been written or are you
looking for the texts themselves?

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Clarification of Question by swt-ga on 20 Sep 2002 16:36 PDT

i'm looking for the texts themselves and references... but citings
could also be of interest...

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Request for Question Clarification by shananigans-ga on 21 Sep 2002 21:45 PDT

I have both Sartre's 'Nausea' and 'Being and Nothingness' on my
bookshelf. If I were to give you all the references he makes to
'consciousness' and 'memory', would this suffice as an answer? I can
also go through the course reader (collection of academic articles) I
have on Sartre, but I'm not sure they will have specific mentions of
memory or consciousness.

An example (from the 'key to special terminology' in Being and
Nothingness'(2001 Routledge Editon) page 630)

"Consciousness. The transcending For-itself. "Consciousness is a being
such that in its being, its being is in question in so far as this
being implies a being other than itself" Like Husserl Sartre insists
that consciousness is always consciousness of something. He sometimes
distinguishes types ofconsciousness according to psychic objects; e.g.
pain-consciousness, shame-consciousness. Two more basic distintions
are made:
 (1) Unreflective consciousness (also called non-thetic consciousness
or non-positional self-consciousness). This is the pre-reflective
cogito. Here there is no knowledge but an implicit consciousness of
being consciousness of an object
 (2) Reflective consciousness (also called thetic consciousness or
positional self-consciousness). For this see "reflection". "

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Clarification of Question by swt-ga on 22 Sep 2002 14:45 PDT

Let me put it this way: 
I need to know if there is a connection between memory and
consciousness. Do you need memory to be conscious? What would Sartre
have answered?

I don't feel qualified to answer this question, but I have found:
A CRITIQUE OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE'S CONCEPTS OF MIND AND FREEDOM AND
THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR EDUCATION

That's a dissertation from 1982, by AMORE, RAYMOND CARMEN, at
Institution: THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT; 0056.
If it helps, it also has Accession No: AAG8300117 
It has 195 pages, and the source is listed as DAI, 43, no. 08A,
(1982): 2590

There is also an article on autistic lives referring to sartre and
others, called The cultural presence of autistic lives, source is
Raritan v. 17 (summer 1997), p. 24-44

Their may be more, there are a lot of other databases listed, but
anyway, I hope this much helps you.

Do you mean his notion of 'bad faith'? I have a copy of 'Being and
Nothingness' here, and also the lecture notes / book of readings from
the subject ('Sartre and deBeauvoir) I took last semester. Would any
of these be of use?

From what I recall off the top of my head, bad faith has to do with
the idea of tricking yourself into believing something other than the
truth. Sartre thinks that this is impossible, because for you to hide
something from yourself, you must know somewhere what it is you're
hiding. If you could be more specific in your question, I could
probably help you out.