anamnesis

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Plato once wrote of anamnesis, the idea that humans have innate knowledge buried within us, and that learning is the act of unearthing it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019

As for the Catholic belief that the Mass re-enacts Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, the statement describes the Eucharistic service as an "anamnesis," or representation, of God's reconciling act in Christ's sacrifice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plato said that man kind never discovers anything new, but comes into the world knowing subconsciously all that can be known and simply exhumes it in a remembering process called anamnesis.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the familiar, autumnal Auden speaking: student of fleshly decay, writer of thank-you notes, urbane scold, expert at anamnesis, a celebrator of the numinous past that raises nostalgia almost to the level of ritual.

From Time Magazine Archive

Psychoanalysis has confirmed this suspicion in all cases of inversion accessible, and has decidedly changed their anamnesis by filling up the infantile amnesias.

From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)