THE INHIBITORY PROCESS OF MEMORY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PRESERVATION OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ELEMENTS

Abstract

The article examines the so-called inhibitory process of memory as a type of active forgetting in the context of its use to preserve selected socio-cultural elements. At the first stage, the physiology of memory and the process of forgetting were revealed. The work of the inhibitory process of memory is analyzed as an example of active forgetting and passive forgetting caused by automatic processes, for example due to brain aging.

Next, the importance of the subjective value of information, which increases its strength in the memory structure, is noted, as well as the reasons why some information may be more important than others. To analyze such structures as memory, neurophysiological studies of the brain, as well as psychological understanding of memory, are taken.

Finally, examples of how the dominant culture "covers" the subject's memory in various ways through the inhibitory process of memory are explored. The examples are based on such significant historical events as the signing of the Valuev circular or the Holodomor, where the enemy actively used methods of spreading culture.

At the very end, it is considered under which conditions the dominant culture is resisted. This happens in moments of high stress, when the identity of the subject is threatened by something, which activates its memory, which consists, first of all, of everyday life, caused by a long line of cause-and-effect relationships from traditions, rituals, daily communications, etc. This kind of memory, despite its low intensity, occupies most of the information "encrypted" in the memory, and in times of stress, the subject turns to this kind of memory, which opposes the dominant, artificially implanted one.