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Anamnesis (from Miriam-Webster Online)

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek anamnEsis, from anamimnEskesthai
to remember, from ana- + mimnEskesthai to remember --
Date: circa 1593
1 : a recalling to mind : REMINISCENCE
2 : a preliminary case history of a medical or psychiatric patient

from Oxford's Companion to Philosophy

An intersting perspective by Philip K. Dick

"Do this in reemebrancee of me..."


anima mundi

Atavism
: (def:
Atavism) Atavism refers to Lombroso's theory that while most individuals evolve, some devolve, becoming primitive or "atavistic".  These evolutionary "throwbacks" are "born criminals," the most violent criminals in society.  Born criminals could be identified through their atavistic stigmata.  (For a good account of Lombroso's theories of atavism, see Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, pages 151-75.)

Jack London's thinking ( find: "atavism" ) as a great contextual example.

That which an age feels to be evil is usually an untimely afterecho of that which was formerly felt to be good - the atavism of an older ideal.
- Nietzsche

magnum opus

niveau

solipsistic (ex:
solipsism)

telos (def: 
teleology

temenos

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