The Blessing of Memory Loss: Toward a Sacred Phenomenology of Forgetting
New Advances in Brain & Critical Care January 16, 2026 Julian Ungar-Sargon
There is a strange mercy in the way the mind forgets a mercy that medicine has rarely understood. In our age of biomedical triumphalism, where pharmaceutical companies spend billions on Alzheimer's therapies promising to rewind the unrewindable, we speak of memory loss exclusively as catastrophe, as the progressive erasure of selfhood requiring aggressive intervention. This article proposes a...