Editing Forgetting (section)

==Social forgetting==
{{Main|Social amnesia}}
Psychologists have called attention to "social aspects of forgetting".<ref name="social aspects of forgetting">{{citation |last1=Hirst|first1=William|last2=Yamashiro|first2=Jeremy K.|chapter=Social Aspects of Forgetting|editor1-last=Meade|editor1-first=M.L.|display-editors=et al.|title=Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2018|pages=76–99}}</ref> Though often loosely defined, [[social amnesia]] is generally considered to be the opposite of [[collective memory]]. "Social amnesia" was first discussed by [[Russell Jacoby]], yet his use of the term was restricted to a narrow approach, which was limited to what he perceived to be a relative neglect of psychoanalytical theory in psychology. The cultural historian [[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]] suggested that "it may be worth investigating the social organization of forgetting, the rules of exclusion, suppression or repression, and the question of who wants whom to forget what".<ref>{{citation|last1=Burke|first1=Peter|chapter=History as Social Memory|editor1-last=Butler|editor1-first=Thomas|title=Memory: History, Culture and the Mind|publisher=Blackwell|date=1989|pages=97–113}}</ref> In an in-depth historical study spanning two centuries, [[Guy Beiner]] proposed the term "social forgetting", which he distinguished from crude notions of "collective amnesia" and "total oblivion", arguing that "social forgetting is to be found in the interface of public silence and more private remembrance".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Beiner|first=Guy|date=2018|title= Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forgetful-remembrance-9780198749356?|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-874935-6}}</ref> The philosopher [[Walter Benjamin]] sees social forgetting closely linked to the question of present-day interests, arguing that "every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Benjamin |first=Walter |title=Illuminations |year=c. 1986 |orig-date=1968 |publisher=Schocken Books |others=Hannah Arendt, Harry Zohn |isbn=0-8052-0241-2 |location=New York |page=255 |oclc=12947710}}</ref> Building on this, the sociologist [[David Leupold]] argued in the context of competing national narratives that what is suppressed and forgotten in one national narrative "might appear at the core of past narrations by the other" - thus often leading to diametrically opposed, mutually exclusive accounts on the past.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leupold |first=David |title=Embattled dreamlands: the politics of contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish memory |date=2020 |isbn=978-0-429-34415-2 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=9 page |oclc=1130319782}}</ref>