THE DIALECTIC OF MEMORY AND FORGETTING: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LIMITS OF PERSONAL IDENTITY
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Ashurova Khurshida Sag‘dullaevna
Associate Professor of the Department of “Humanities and Information Technologies” SamSIFL
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- Keywords:
- David Hume, John Locke, personal identity, memory, the phenomenon of forgetting, cause-and-effect relationships, psychological continuity, substance, retrospective reconstruction.
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This article explores the problem of personal identity through the prism of the dialectical relationship between the phenomena of memory and forgetting. John Locke’s classic “theory of memory” and David Hume’s skeptical critique of it are comparatively analyzed. The main goal of the study is to substantiate that memory is not the creator of personality, but rather the tool that “discovers” it. The article highlights on the basis of scientific evidence that the phenomenon of forgetfulness is not a violation of personality, but a prerequisite for its constructive nature, and that the integrity of the “I” relies not on the accuracy of memory, but on cause-and-effect relationships and the power of imagination.
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1. Hume, D. A Treatise of Human Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (1-kitob, 4-qism, 6-bo‘lim: "Of Personal Identity").
2. Locke, J. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London: Penguin Classics, 1997. (2-kitob, 27-bob).
3. Parfit, D. Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
4. Kemp-Smith, N. The Philosophy of David Hume. London: Macmillan, 1941.
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- 2026-06-09
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- Vol. 2 No. 6 (2026)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
