The Memory Hole Podcast

For complete show notes please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Featured guests: Gabi Jones https://gabisvintage.substack.com/ Edmund King https://substack.com/@paroxysms Terri Kapsalis https://www.terrikapsalis.net/ Jamieson Webster https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/jamieson-webster/ W.David Marx http://www.neomarxisme.com/ Jennie Lightweis-Goff https://thebutc...

For complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Philosopher Ian Hacking https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking Social constructionism definition https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/philosophy/documents/faculty-documents/boghossian/Boghossian_Social-Construction.pdf?challenge=d06e90d7-4d8f-4b88-9d8c-10b73beb60f1 Ian Hacking: Making up Peo...

For complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Baaken Museum https://thebakken.org Franz Anton Mesmer https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mesmerized/ Batty's operation https://www.jstor.org/stable/44450540 Hysteria https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/movies/hysteria-with-hugh-dancy-and-maggie-gyllenhaal.html Featured guest...

For complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Carl Jung https://jungpage.org Frances Hill: A Delusion of Satan https://salemwitchmuseum.com/product/a-delusion-of-satan/ Elaine Showalter: Hystories https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hystories/9780231104593/ Susan O'Sullivan: Sleeping Beauties https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/14/the-sleepin...

For complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Yellow Wallpaper, full text https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf Terri Kapsalis: Why I teach the Yellow Wallpaper https://lithub.com/author/terri-kapsalis/ A Clinical Lesson at the Salpetrie https://en.wikip...

Referenced: Opening clip: Dream Crazier, 2019 Nike Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc06cIrvXE From Paralysis to Fatigue, Shorter https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/From-Paralysis-to-Fatigue/Edward-Shorter/9780029286678 The Babinksi reflex test https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519009/ Dr. Jean Martin Charcot https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3064755/ Hysteria Beyond Freud, Gilma...

How much of our self-understanding is essentially untranslatable? References: Brian Eno on culture https://musicthoughts.com/t/114 https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-a-big-theory-of-culture DSM & Culture Bound Syndromes https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/psychology/culture-bound-syndromes Lumping and Splitting https://jenamartin.substack.com/p/nosology Featured guests: W.David Marx,...

Topics include: Pegged, cuffed, jeans https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6pNd2muy6a/ Season 1 of the Memory Hole Podcast: The Courage to Heal https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/podcast/episode/2c348067/ep-3-suspicion-to-confirmation-the-promise-of-the-courage-to-heal Meredith Maran https://www.meredithmaran.com Malcolm Gladwell & the tipping point https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-gladw...

Season 3 of The Memory Hole Podcast is coming soon. Tune in to hear from the voices featured here, and others: Ethan Watters https://substack.com/@ethanwatters1 Terri Kapsalis https://www.terrikapsalis.net Lisa Marchiano https://lisamarchiano.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

I’ve migrated my podcast to Substack, and am working out the kinks in that process. Which brings me to episode #975 of the Savage Lovecast, when Dan Savage and I discussed a caller’s question about repressed memories and sexual trauma. The photo promoting his podcast featured a series of phrases I never expected to find in combination with my name, so please enjoy! As 2025 draws to a close, I’m ha...

Nicholas 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.com Elif Batuman The Elif Life : A Great Time for Personal Narrative   Gen Z is not reading Recursion , a novel by Blake Crouch This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss th...

Twin Peaks The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer , by Jennifer Lynch Katie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my website: https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/about A Thousand Acres , by Jane Smiley This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

Featured in this episode: Kate St. Vincent Vogl Andromeda Romano-Lax - Andromeda's novel , now in paperback The Tell by Amy Griffen Remembering Molly - Immediate and delayed false memory formation after acute MDMA exposure. Kloft, Otgaar, Blokland, Toennes, Ramaekers. Eur Neuropsychopharmacology The Courage to Heal, as featured in Season 1, Episode 3 Professor Patrick Bray -Article: Proust and the...

Why 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 Freud Andromeda Romano-Lax Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson Kat Rosenfield 'Elizabeth is Missing' Black Eyed Susans In the Woods This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w...

Tell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2 Memory's misuse in storytelling I 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...

Welcome 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.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jenamartin.substack.com

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 discred...

Opening: 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...

This 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...

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....

All 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 Cassan...

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 fa...

How 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...

Coming 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...