Memory and identity
The idea that who we are is constituted by memory, and what happens to the self when memory is altered, lost, or false.
Memory and identity in fiction: 13 works
Odysseus's entire journey is a struggle to return home and reclaim his rightful identity and place as king and father.
The ocean resurrects the crew's guilt-laden memories as living visitors.
Real and implanted memories become indistinguishable, unmooring the protagonist's identity.
Implanted memories blur the line between authentic and manufactured selfhood.
A drug splits the undercover narcotics agent's identity until he surveils himself.
Implanted memories make even the hunter uncertain of his own nature.
The transformation of all life on Earth into a collective consciousness fundamentally alters individual memory and identity.
The protagonist's true identity is buried under and contested by manufactured memories.
Deleting memories of a love asks what remains of a self and a bond once they are gone.
Implanted memories and their authenticity are central to K's sense of self.
An implanted 'imago' of a predecessor's memories destabilizes the ambassador's sense of self.
Competing memories of different timelines fracture the characters' identities.
The severed 'innie' and 'outie' selves raise which is the real person.
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