The Memory Hole Podcast

<p>I’ve migrated my podcast to Substack, and am working out the kinks in that process. Which brings me to episode #975 of the Savage Lovecast, when Dan Savage and I discussed a caller’s question about repressed memories and sexual trauma. The photo promoting his podcast featured a series of phrases I never expected to find in combination with my name, so please enjoy! </p><p>As 2025 draws to a close, I’m hard at work on Season 3 of the podcast. This next season will be about a fundamental question I have about the recovered memory movement - why did those ideas make sense to me in 1989, but would not have been offered as an explanation in 1999? Why and how does culture shape and explain our innermost selves? I’m talking to experts in psychology and history to help sort it out, launching in early 2026.</p><p>Thanks for listening!</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">jenamartin.substack.com</a>

<p>Nicholas Dames <a href="https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/"><u>https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/</u></a></p><p><a href="https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacSOhzejA5Iizy3_LrAKGaPsYqnok-eupYQPD9XWTAevkSb6GWFtJ9IT_NIXQystPSxaX_fRtZilf2_XIglDn924Ra1st7ISsIZB591iTARva270x1SkDTgX_M5HidWv1esokrZeOXkCPE5iVzUkaZF1qK-YHmWzel3jbXaLSZtv1CwqzvGb92nDfpk1hLtP04pnnnfAL0Ab-ANtjyv7uKKMp1cIpxHzgMoqEtB_okTN6DOqFZHNyoF8Z7UyB04bm2alAfm⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Pride and Prejudice</a> </p><p>Inside Out 2 - <a href="⁠https://insideout.fandom.com/wiki/Nostalgia⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Nostalgia  </a></p><p>Dan Chaon <a href="https://danchaon.com/"><u>https://danchaon.com/</u></a></p><p>Olivia Gatwood <a href="https://www.oliviagatwood.com/"><u>https://www.oliviagatwood.com/</u></a> </p><p>Kat Rosenfield <a href="https://katrosenfield.com/"><u>https://katrosenfield.com</u></a></p><p>Elif Batuman <a href="https://eliflife.substack.com/">The Elif Life</a>: <a href="https://eliflife.substack.com/p/a-great-time-for-personal-narrative">A Great Time for Personal Narrative</a>  </p><p><a href="⁠https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-end-of-reading⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Gen Z is not reading</a></p><p><a href="⁠https://www.amazon.com/Recursion-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/1524759783⁠" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Recursion</a>, a novel by Blake Crouch</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/><a href="https://www.memoryholepodcast.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><br/></a></p><p><br/><a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><br/></a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">jenamartin.substack.com</a>

<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Twin Peaks</a></p><p><br/></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Diary-Laura-Palmer-Peaks/dp/1451662076/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RaCg9ELaIkkyhjHrut1QFS1U4zLcKpKkOz4kk4-P8C_webDLXc3yhSfYShCNSj2oNnRl7iS1_rSZWyzxjgK-jxET62P9Pc51SqjqiS3y2PPon8WLPC3RNAFSnqC9MdjUSD8bZ3zrDIvbErM2TSItRdH04nvEP6sdbidRFxD3P31w5X_6wh2iivLnxv8Gtm6q3YCppoD0EE-_Hz3prQdJlheMCOtRdwL-EV8OrCJEAgc.qPVIcRZOsVlJ4Pssz2LXqGE3TjHmEQpb7jIlfyExASc&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=694458826310&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9019610&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=1769501861472211610--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=1769501861472211610&amp;hvtargid=kwd-300591690408&amp;hydadcr=10053_13483831&amp;keywords=the+secret+diary+of+laura+palmer&amp;mcid=81689a4b15193908b541fc817593b0cb&amp;qid=1747517997&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer</a>, by Jennifer Lynch</p><p><br/></p><p>Katie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my website:</p><p><a href="https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/about" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/about</a></p><p><br/></p><p><a href="https://a.co/d/fKNrjSC" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">A Thousand Acres</a>, by Jane Smiley</p><p><br/></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">jenamartin.substack.com</a>

<p>Featured in this episode:</p><p><br/></p><p><a href="http://www.katevogl.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Kate St. Vincent Vogl</a></p><p><br/></p><p>Andromeda Romano-Lax</p><p>-<a href="https://www.romanolax.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Andromeda's novel</a>, now in paperback</p><p><br/></p><p><a href="https://www.thetellbook.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Tell</a> by Amy Griffen</p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35124400/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Remembering Molly</a> - Immediate and delayed false memory formation after acute MDMA exposure. Kloft, Otgaar, Blokland, Toennes, Ramaekers. Eur Neuropsychopharmacology</p><p><br/></p><p>The Courage to Heal, as featured in <a href="https://www.memoryholepodcast.com/podcast/episode/2c348067/ep-3-suspicion-to-confirmation-the-promise-of-the-courage-to-heal" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Season 1, Episode 3 </a></p><p><br/></p><p>Professor Patrick Bray</p><p>-Article: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24290259/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Proust and the neurosciences</a></p><p>-<a href="https://www.routledge.com/According-to-Marcel-Proust-Selon-Marcel-Proust/Bray-Furman/p/book/9781032941615?srsltid=AfmBOoqgDjmtVVUNJTPtZumFYqG3V9LU9FVPeXZsHfV2NNtAJBTWljcx" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">According to Marcel Proust</a>: new guidebook focusing on Proust's writing</p><p><br/></p><p>Fran Mason - <a href="https://franmason.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">73 Notebooks</a></p><p><br/></p><p>Janet Malcolm <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605131/stillpictures/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Still Pictures</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">jenamartin.substack.com</a>

<p><strong>Why do people still believe in repressed memories? It's a mystery.</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>The first detective novel: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/155" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Moonstone</a> </p><p>Wilkie Collins and the Birth of Amnesia; <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/amnesiac-selves-9780195173093?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Nicholas Dames </a></p><p><a href="https://psyartjournal.com/article/show/you-when_sherlock_holmes_and_freud_meet_psyc" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sherlock Holmes</a> and <a href="https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/detecting-the-differences-and-similarities-between-sherlock-holmes-and-sigmund-freud" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sigmund Freud</a></p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@romanolax" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Andromeda Romano-Lax </a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Before-I-Go-Sleep-Novel/dp/0062060562" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Before I go to sleep</a> by SJ Watson</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Must-Remember-This-Novel/dp/0063207397" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Kat Rosenfield</a></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/elizabeth-is-missing/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">'Elizabeth is Missing'</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-Eyed-Susans-Suspense-Julia-Heaberlin/dp/0804178011" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Black Eyed Susans </a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woods-Novel-Tana-French/dp/0143113496" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">In the Woods</a></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jenamartin.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">jenamartin.substack.com</a>