Deja Vu is not Greek. That is the affliction as described.
You know that feeling when you read a classical text that agrees so well with what you've been saying that you suspect you did read it long ago and then forgot you did? There ought to be a name for this feeling. Probably the Greeks had a name but I forgot it.
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Deja vu is the feeling you've seen it before. I mean the feeling that you probably saw it before but then forgot you saw it and mistakenly thought you came up with it yourself until you saw it again. (Or maybe you just reinvented the wheel.)
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I think the word for the process is cryptomnesia
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He nailed it !! "Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original . . . not deliberately engaging in plagiarism but rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration"
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You mean you Germans don’t have a word for it?!
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That's funny: while all the world says "there must be a german word for that", it seems that the germans say "there must be a greek word for that"
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"People don't have ideas. Ideas have people." - Carl Jung
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Isn't that the recovy of an innate knowledge that you forgot you had? Socrates lead a slave through an equation, without quite telling him how to do it and supposed the slave already knew the anwser and just needed to be proded to remember
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ἀνάμνησις
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