Shows
The Memory Hole PodcastS2. EP.5 Fictional Memories: Past, Present, and FutureNicholas Dames https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/Pride and Prejudice Inside Out 2 - Nostalgia Dan Chaon https://danchaon.com/Olivia Gatwood https://www.oliviagatwood.com/ Kat Rosenfield https://katrosenfield.comElif Batuman The Elif Life: A Great Time for Personal Narrative Gen Z is not readingRecursion, a novel by Blake Crouch2025-06-0242 min
The Memory Hole PodcastS2.EP4. The Mirage of the ZeitgeistTwin PeaksThe Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, by Jennifer LynchKatie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my website:https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/aboutA Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley2025-05-1828 min
The Memory Hole PodcastS2. EP3. In Search of Lost Time; Memoirs and MemoryFeatured in this episode:Kate St. Vincent VoglAndromeda Romano-Lax-Andromeda's novel, now in paperbackThe Tell by Amy GriffenRemembering Molly - Immediate and delayed false memory formation after acute MDMA exposure. Kloft, Otgaar, Blokland, Toennes, Ramaekers. Eur NeuropsychopharmacologyThe Courage to Heal, as featured in Season 1, Episode 3 Professor Patrick Bray-Article: Proust and the neurosciences-According to Marcel Proust: new guidebook focusing on Proust's...2025-04-2935 min
The Memory Hole PodcastS2. EP2. Remember the Memory, Solve the CrimeWhy do people still believe in repressed memories? It's a mystery.In this episode:The first detective novel: The Moonstone Wilkie Collins and the Birth of Amnesia; Nicholas Dames Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund FreudAndromeda Romano-Lax Before I go to sleep by SJ WatsonKat Rosenfield'Elizabeth is Missing'Black Eyed Susans In the Woods2025-04-2132 min
The Memory Hole PodcastS2. EP1. Tell Me A StoryTell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2Memory's misuse in storytellingI made a second season because I wondered - why, if the recovered memory movement is over, do so many people still believe in repressed memories?Season 2 is for you if:-you love books, movies or otherwise escaping into a story-you think about memory and forgetting-you think about why we think about what we think about...-you liked Season 1-you like learning about...2025-04-1422 min
The Memory Hole PodcastTrailer for Season 2Welcome back to the Memory Hole.This trailer features interviews with authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Kat Rosenfield. Complete links to guests and sources will be provided in upcoming episode notes at www.memoryholepodcast.com2025-03-3002 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 6: What did we learn?Show notes for Episode 6:
Carrie Poppy
https://maximumfun.org/about/team/carrie-poppy/
Historian Edward Shorter
From Paralysis to Fatigue; a history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era
Idioms of distress
https://www.brightfutures.org/concerns/culture/cultural-concepts.html
Article in The Cut:
The Memory War; Jennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse. Her parents’ attempt to discredit her created a defense for countless sex offenders.
Carrie’s resp...2023-11-0240 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 5: Forget Me Not; how we don't rememberOpening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm
Interviews:
Dr. Henry Otgaar
Personal Website
Maastricht University
Interview 9/21/2023
Dr. Sophie Scott
The Brain: 10 things you should know
X/Twitter
Interview 9/22/2023
Mentions:
Bart Simpson: Oh boy, time to repress another memory
Season 14, Episode 17
Dr. Scott mentions the 'Lost in the Mall' study
Conte...2023-10-2235 min
The Memory Hole PodcastBonus: Crews on FreudThis is a bonus episode, to bring you more from my interview conducted on June 28 2023 with Dr. Frederick Crews, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
If you listened to Episode 4 you heard a lot from him about
Freud. But he had lots more to say during our interview and I don’t want to condemn those words to a file on my computer. Plus he doesn’t have a lot of accessible interviews on the internet. I believe his voice needs to be heard.
About the guest:
2023-10-1829 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 4: The Fog of War; believing the unbelievable.From Freud to Geraldo
Show Notes:
Frederick Crews is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy, The Random House Handbook (currently in its sixth edition), and Postmodern Pooh.
Interview, 6/28/2023
Freud: The Making of an Illision
The Freudian Cover Up
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/10040046
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Mark Pendergrast
Interview 6/14/2023
Quotes from Prodigy, early internet chat room, taken from his book Vi...2023-10-1739 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 3: "Suspicion to Confirmation"; the promise of The Courage to HealAll quotes come from the 1st Edition of The Courage to Heal; a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse, 1988
For more audio background about the book, please check out the Conspirituality podcast's two brilliant episodes on this text.
Meredith Maran Interview 5/23/2023
Mark Pendegrast Interview 6/14/2023
Frederick Crews Interview 6/28/2023
The cover image for this episode is of Cassandra (Cassandra. 3307: Bust by Max Klinger, 1857-1920. Hamburger Kunsthalle)
"Have I missed the mark, or, like true archer, do I strike my quarry? Or am I prophet of lies, a b...2023-10-1035 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 2: “Every tear was an incest-driven tear”; child sexual abuse comes to light in the 1980s.Please note: between minutes 3:30-4:56 on some platforms there is a blank space. This was a YouTube clip of an Oprah Winfrey program in 1986, included to demonstrate the pervasiveness of this topic in popular culture. If this is missing in your feed, please accept my apologies. Here is the incident referred to:
In addition to physical abuse, young Winfrey was sexually assaulted
by more than one family member when she was just nine years old. She was
also molested by a family friend while still a little girl. Oprah
shared these traumas with the public very early...2023-10-0428 min
The Memory Hole PodcastEp. 1: Forgetting about rememberingHow on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about.
Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023
You can request a copy of her memoir, My Lie, A True Story of False Memory on her website https://meredithmaran.com/
You can hear an interview she conducted about this book here.
Dead Can Dance
https://www.deadcandance.com/
The charm of prostitution: Risky Business
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business
‘Alternative’ in the 1990s was about more...2023-09-2621 min
The Memory Hole PodcastTrailerComing Soon: The Memory Hole Podcast, a 6-episode series about the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's, told from the perspective of a bystander.
The Memory Hole Podcast is intended only for mature audiences and deals with topics of childhood sexual abuse and incest. Please do not listen with children.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, please call RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) at their 24-hour hotline 1-800-656-4673. More information is available on their website www.rainn.org
2023-09-1602 min