Biomaterial Database

Proust, memory and the Engram. 2000

A E Stuart

The French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born at Auteuil, Paris and was a semi-invalid all his life, cosseted by his mother until her death in 1905 when he was 34 years old. His hitherto 'social butterfly' existence was transformed. He withdrew himself from society and lived in a sound-proof flat giving himself entirely to introspection. Delving into the 'self' below the levels of superficial consciousness, he set himself to transforming into art the realities of experience as known to the inner emotional self. In his monumental 13 volume novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, it is evident how no detail ever escapes the amazingly observant eye of the artist, and how his experience is subjected to close scrutiny and a searching analysis. His characters are described in terms of their concealed emotional lives, evolving in a plane that has nothing to do with temporal dimensions.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008513	Medicine in Literature	Written or other literary works whose subject matter is medical or about the profession of medicine and related areas.	Literature, Medicine in,in Literature, Medicine
D008568	Memory	Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition. Clinically, it is usually subdivided into immediate, recent, and remote memory.
D004644	Emotions	Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.	Feelings,Regret,Emotion,Feeling,Regrets
D005602	France	A country in western Europe bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, and the countries of Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the principalities of Andorra and Monaco, and by the duchy of Luxembourg. Its capital is Paris.	Corsica,Saint Pierre and Miquelon,Miquelon and Saint Pierre,Miquelon and St. Pierre,St. Pierre and Miquelon
D049672	History, 19th Century	Time period from 1801 through 1900 of the common era.	19th Century History,19th Cent. History (Medicine),19th Cent. History of Medicine,19th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 19th Century,History of Medicine, 19th Cent.,History, Nineteenth Century,Medical History, 19th Cent.,Medicine, 19th Cent.,19th Cent. Histories (Medicine),19th Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 19th (Medicine),Cent. History, 19th (Medicine),Century Histories, 19th,Century Histories, Nineteenth,Century History, 19th,Century History, Nineteenth,Histories, 19th Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 19th Century,Histories, Nineteenth Century,History, 19th Cent. (Medicine),Nineteenth Century Histories,Nineteenth Century History
D049673	History, 20th Century	Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.	20th Century History,20th Cent. History (Medicine),20th Cent. History of Medicine,20th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 20th Century,History of Medicine, 20th Cent.,History, Twentieth Century,Medical History, 20th Cent.,Medicine, 20th Cent.,20th Cent. Histories (Medicine),20th Century Histories,Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine),Cent. History, 20th (Medicine),Century Histories, 20th,Century Histories, Twentieth,Century History, 20th,Century History, Twentieth,Histories, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Histories, 20th Century,Histories, Twentieth Century,History, 20th Cent. (Medicine),Twentieth Century Histories,Twentieth Century History