20 Jul 2009

Entry Directory, Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire)


by Corry Shores[Search Blog Here. Index-tags are found on the bottom of the left column.]

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Henri Bergson

Matter and Memory
Matière et mémoire

Chapter I
“Of the Selection of Images For Conscious Presentation. What our Body Means and Does.”

§1 The unique place and function of the living body. [Affection for Our Body Image]

Perceptions under Memory’s Contractions
§13 ‘What then becomes of Consciousness? Preliminary Hints.’


Contracting Habits
§39 To learn by heart is to create a cerebral mechanism, a habit of the body.


Habitual Liberations
§40 To recall the successive stages of learning by heart is to appeal to an independent memory.


De-Contracting Successions
§46 Thus memory-image and motor habit are distinct in kind, though they may coalesce in life. Reasons why a thorough study of recognition is necessary


How to Recognizing Flawed Theories of Recognition
§47 What then is recognition?


Graceful Motors
§49 In one kind of recognition the basis of the sense of familiarity is the consciousness of a well-ordered motor accompaniment.

Billowing Contractions, Attention in Memory
§55 The number and complexity of these images will depend on the degree of tensions adopted by the mind.


Memory Embodily
§56 So there are different planes of memory; the largest includes all our past, and is the plane of dream


Chapter III.
Of the Survival of Images. Memory and Mind.
Chapitre III.
De la survivance des images la mémoire et l’esprit

Section XIX.
What the Present Is
En quoi consiste le présent

Present Tendencies Contracted
§73 But memory is radically different from perception. The past is powerless; the present is sensori-motor, and therefore active.


Our Minds Illumine Memories Immediately Useful And the All the Rest Demures Obscure
§83 The past has not ceased to exist; it has only ceased to be useful.


Section XXII
Relation of Past and Present
Rapport du passé au présent


The Warmth which Gives It Light
Memory’s Sensitivities to Sensations,
and Present Perceptions’ Embodying Embrace of the Past
§ 84 The two memories and their interplay.
Each borrows from and supports the other


XXIII Memory and General Ideas
L’idée générale et la mémoire


Crystals of Contraction:
Memory’s Multileveled Manifold
§ 91 And the general idea is always in movement between
the plane of action and that of pure memory.




Ch.4
De la délimitation et de la fixation des images. Perception et matière. Âme et corps.
The Delimiting and Fixing of Images. Perception and Matter. Soul and Body

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 Bergson, Henri. Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit. Ed. Félix Alcan. Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer Bailliere et Cie, 1903. Available online at:http://www.archive.org/details/matireetmmoiree01berggoog

Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. Transl. Nancy Margaret Paul & W. Scott Palmer. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2004; originally published by George Allen & Co., Ltd., London, 1912. Available online at:http://www.archive.org/details/mattermemory00berg

Or in other entries:
Bergson, Henri. 1939 [this one 3rd edn. 1990]. Matière et mémoire: Essai sur la relation du corps à l'esprit. Paris: Quadridge / Presses Universitaires de France.
PDF available online at:
PDF of 1903 edition at:
Text copied from 1939 edition at:

Bergson, Henri. 2004 [says originally published by George Allen & Co., Ltd., London, 1912. But there is 1911 edition (below)]. Matter and Memory. Translated by Nancy Margaret Paul & W. Scott Palmer. Mineola, New York: Dover.
PDF of 1911 edition [8th printing 1970] at:
Text copied from 1911 edition at:
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