0 a medical condition that makes you unable to remember things: --
1 loss of the ability to remember --
This phenomenon can be explained by source amnesia.
There are, naturally, some very good reasons for this "historical amnesia" of the natural sciences.
Certainly, war crimes suspects have often favoured a sort of amnesia.
The phenomenon of amnesia for syncope is the most likely explanation for this overlap.
Possibly women who have had a stillbirth develop amnesia for some of the events associated with it.
For events that occur in very early childhood, lack of memory may be due to childhood amnesia.
Reawakened collective memory of communal life will aid collective amnesia of traumatic conflict.
Thus, the play can be linked directly with the then-current economic euphoria combined with political amnesia and complacency.
