ABSTRACT
This chapter looks more closely at how emotions and memory intertwine as their complexity culminates in the ways they function in human life. Semantic memory is 'noetic', i.e. it can normally be brought to consciousness, but the circumstances of its acquisition are lost. Episodic memory is 'autonoetic': it takes itself to be knowledge of the past. There are obvious and intimate links between memory and emotion. Some effects of past experience are confined to the subpersonal. Procedural and semantic memory are always involved, and sometimes, when we are explicitly experiencing an emotion targeting a past time, episodic memory is involved as well. The schemata on the basis of which both memories and emotions are constructed make use of specific experiences and cultural assumptions about 'normal' events and responses. This becomes particularly clear in certain pathological cases, when patients confabulate elaborate accounts of adventures they supposedly underwent, while actually being locked up in hospital.
