lethonomia (11. 762)

Incorporating the element of Lethe, the Underworld river of forgetting one’s mortal existence, via Kottke we are introduced to the term for a tendency to not recall names that falls under wider concept of Carl Jung’s lethological and loganamnosis, a compulsion to recall a specific word that’s slipped one’s mind. I can especially relate to the latter tip-of-the-tongue phenomena—a recall not limited to conversation but also research and trying to wrest something from the archives and memory banks, fishing around for a file name or increasingly a descriptor that algorithm might understand and coming up against a slew of dead-ends and googlewhacks (I had to reach to remember that one) but will keep hunting—despite sometimes feeling gaslighted when I can’t find something I know I posted about or photographed—until thoroughly exhausted.