ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores a range of ordinary people who are recollecting events that are either distressing or difficult to manage in the present. It focuses on the practices and techniques that people who recollect vital memories have evolved and adopted for themselves. The book shows how life-space can be expanded through folding the past into the present, despite the many significant challenges to be confronted. It defines affect as the 'feeling of affordance', the felt sense of the possible that arises from people's engagement with assemblies of relations. The book engages with the world primarily in terms of the possibilities for action that is offered up to us as embodied beings. It also shows how to feel the past in different ways, through invariant assemblies of relations, may be more important than the search for narrative closure.
