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Memory and forgetting are in a balance. We rely on memory to hold the structure of the world in place and we rely on forgetting to rethink the world anew. To forgive is often to forget. To live a full life experiencing the intensity of each moment is to be always shedding old concretions of structure so that the novelty has room to reappear. (Klass, 1986, p. 1)
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Camp, C.J., McKitrick, L.A. (1989). The Dialectics of Forgetting and Remembering Across the Adult Lifespan. In: Kramer, D.A., Bopp, M.J. (eds) Transformation in Clinical and Developmental Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3594-1_9
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