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==English==
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===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*men-|id=think}}
{{prefix|en|crypto|amnesia}}, ultimately from {{etyl|fr|en}} {{m|fr|cryptomnésie}}.
From {{affix|en|crypto-|pos1={{glossary|prefix}} meaning ‘hidden’|amnesia<alt:(a)mnesia>|sort=mnesia}}, modelled after {{der|en|fr|cryptomnésie}},<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=n|id=5377869211|date=July 2023|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref> which was {{coinage|fr|Q667117|nocap=1|nocat=1}} (1854–1920) in his work ''Des Indes à la planète Mars'' (''From India to the Planet Mars'', 1899 or 1900<!--cannot find an OCLC record for the 1st edition-->).<ref>{{cite-book|author=|title=Des Indes à la planète Mars : Etude sur un cas de somnambulisme avec glossolalie : Avec 44 figures|trans-title=From India to the Planet Mars: Study of a Case of Sleepwalking with Glossolalia: With 44 Figures|location=[Geneva&#59; Paris?]|publisher=[Atar Fischbacher?]|year=1899 or 1900}}.</ref> The English word was probably first used in the 1900 translation of Flournoy’s work: see the quotation.
 
===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.zi.ə/|/ˌkɹɪp.tə(ʊ)mˈniː.ʒə/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˌkɹɪp.təmˈni.ʒi.ə/|/-ʒə/|/-zi.ə/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cryptomnesia.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːziə|s=5}}
* {{hyphenation|en|cryp|to|mnes|ia}}
 
===Noun===
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# {{lb|en|chiefly|psychology|uncountable}} The [[phenomenon]] of the [[reappearance]] of a [[long#Adjective|long]]-[[forgotten#Adjective|forgotten]] [[memory]] as if it were a [[new#Adjective|new]] [[experience#Noun|experience]]; {{lb|en|countable}} an [[instance#Noun|instance]] of this. {{defdate|from 1900}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1900|author=[[w:Théodore Flournoy|Th[éodore] Flournoy]]|chapter=The Hindoo Cycle|translator=Daniel B. Vermilye|title=From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia|location=New York, N.Y.&#59; London|publisher=[[w:Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]]|page=276|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/from-india-to-planet-mars/page/276/mode/1up|oclc=1375901|passage=All the witnesses of Mlle. {{w|Hélène Smith|{{q-g|Hélène}} Smith}}'s Hindoo somnambulisms who are of the same opinion on that subject (several refrain from having any) unite in seeing in it a curious phenomenon of '''cryptomnesia''', of reappearances of memories profoundly buried beneath the normal waking state, together with an indeterminate amount of imaginative exaggeration upon the canvas of actual facts. But by this name of '''cryptomnesia''' or resurrection of latent memories, two singularly different things are understood.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year='''1981''' (date written)|author=w:Oliver Sacks|chapter=Yes, Father-Sister|title=[[w:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat|The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales]]|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Harper (publisher)|Harper & Row]]|year_published=1985 (1987 printing)|section=part 2 (Excesses)|page=118|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/manwhomistookhis0000sack_o6i8/page/118/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-06-097079-6|passage=How much is '''cryptamnesia'''-confabulation, how much frontal-lobe indifference-equalisation, how much some strange schizophrenic disintegration and shattering-flattening?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1994|author=w:Ted Goertzel|chapter=Measuring the Prevalence of False Memories|editor=w:Kendrick Frazier|title=Encounters with the Paranormal|series=Best of {{w|Skeptical Inquirer}}|seriesvolume=5|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=w:Prometheus Books|year_published=1998|section=part 9 (The Malleability of Memory)|page=411|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/encounterswithpa00kend/page/411/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-57392-203-6|passage=The path analysis suggests that '''cryptomnesia''' is rooted in a lack of trusting relationships. {{...}} This lack of trust leads to feelings of anomie and anxiety that make the individual more likely to construct false memories out of information stored in the unconscious mind. People who think in this way are susceptible to belief in conspiracy theories, since these theories help them to make sense of an otherwise incoherent world.|footer={{small|Originally published in ''{{w|Skeptical Inquirer}}'' (spring 1994), volume 18, number 3, pages 266–272.}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1996|author=John Farrell|chapter=Paranoid Psychology|title=Freud’s Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion|location=New York, N.Y.&#59; London|publisher=w:New York University Press|page=56|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_AWMpCTUX4C&pg=PA56|isbn=978-0-8147-2649-5|passage=And although [[w:Sigmund Freud|{{quote-gloss|Sigmund}} Freud]] claimed that others’ ideas were of no use to him unless they came at a time when he was ready for them, he proved enormously susceptible to their influence and even noted his own tendency to ‘'''cryptamnesia'''’, by which he ‘unconsciously’ contrived to forget his intellectual debts.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=John R. Haule|chapter=From Somnambulism to the Archetypes: The French Roots of Jung’s Split with [[w:Sigmund Freud|{{quote-gloss|Sigmund}} Freud]]|editor=Paul Bishop|title=Jung in Contexts: A Reader|location=London&#59; New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Routledge|section=part III (Jung in Intellectual Context)|page=253|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Z-sx_N4-TYC&pg=PA253|isbn=978-0-415-20557-3|passage=Apparently lacking the time or patience to reveal a comprehensive system of '''cryptomnesias''' in his medium, Fräulein SW, [[w:Carl Jung|{{quote-gloss|Carl}} Jung]] strenuously asserts the importance of this unconscious device {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=David Edwards; Michael Jacobs|chapter=Conscious and Unconscious: The Next Hundred Years|editor=Michael Jacobs|title=Conscious and Unconscious|series=Core Concepts in Therapy|location=Maidenhead, Berkshire|publisher=[[w:Open University|Open University Press]], [[w:McGraw Hill Education|McGraw-Hill Education]]|page=136|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cb6hcbQvrakC&pg=PA136|isbn=978-0-335-20950-7|passage=While apparent regressions into past lives can often easily be shown to be constructions based on '''cryptamnesia'''{{nb...}}, this is by no means always the case. In 1987, one hypnotherapy client experienced an apparent 'past life' as a submariner who died with his ship in 1942; he provided detailed names and dates that could be confirmed from the records of the naval base where he was supposed to have served{{nb...}}. If we insist on a Darwinian account, these phenomena must be examples of '''cryptamnesia''', suggestion or fraud.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=[[w:Carl Jung|C[arl] G[ustav] Jung]]|chapter=On the Method of Dream Interpretation|editors=Lorenz Jung; Maria Meyer-Grass|translators=Ernst Falzeder; Tony Woolfson|title=Children’s Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936–1940|series=[[w:Philemon Foundation|Philemon Series]]|location=Princeton, N.J.&#59;Oxford, Oxfordshire|publisher=w:Princeton University Press|page=17|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/CarlJungCollectedWorks/Falzeder%252C%20Ernst_Jung%252C%20C.%20G._Jung%252C%20Lorenz_Meyer-Grass%252C%20Maria_Woolfson%252C%20Tony%20-%20Children's%20Dreams_%20Notes%20From%20the%20Seminar%20Given%20in%201936-1940-Princeton%20University%20Press%20(2012)/page/17/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-691-13323-2|passage=In dreams, therefore, '''cryptomnesias''' may appear, that is, impressions, elements, thoughts, a piece of knowledge that the dreamer once had, which then vanishes completely and cannot be reproduced, until it suddenly reemerges in its original form on some particular occasion.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2021|author=Gabriel A. Radavansky|chapter=Memory and Reality|title=Human Memory|edition=4th|location=New York, N.Y.&#59; Abingdon, Oxfordshire|publisher=w:Routledge|section=part 3 (Special Topics in Memory)|page=428|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mcIEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA428|isbn=978-0-367-25291-5|passage=Some plagiarism is unconscious and unintentional. It occurs when people come up with ideas that they believe are their own but in fact were encountered in the past. This unconscious plagiarism is '''cryptomnesia'''{{nb...}}. One theory of '''cryptomnesia''' is that it is a reality monitoring error. People retain the content information, but after some time has passed, and/or because little attention was paid during encoding, the source memory is weak and has no influence.}}
 
====RelatedAlternative termsforms====
* {{alt|en|cryptamnesia}}
 
====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|cryptomnesic}}
* {{l|en|cryptomnesically}}
 
====Translations====
[[Category:en:Memory]]
{{trans-top|phenomenon of the reappearance of long-forgotten memory as if it were a new experience; an instance of this}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|استرجاع إبداعي|?}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|կրիպտոմնեզիա}}
* Asturian: {{t|ast|criptomnesia}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|kriptomneziya}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|criptomnèsia|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|kryptomnesi|?}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|kryptomnesia}}
* French: {{t+|fr|cryptomnésie|f}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* German: {{t+|de|Kryptomnesie|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|קריפטומנזיה|?}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|kriptomnesia}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|криптомне́зија|f}}
* Persian: {{t|fa|کریپتومنسیا}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|kryptomnezja|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|criptomnésia|f}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|criptomnezia|?}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|криптомнези́я|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|kryptomnézia|?}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|criptomnesia|f}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|криптомнезия}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|kriptomnezi}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|криптомнезія|f}}
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===References===
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===Further reading===
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{{cln|en|terms suffixed with -ia}}
{{C|en|Memory}}
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