Recovered momory cause personality disfunction?

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I was watching an old Stargate episode where a character called Linea (who was previously a genocidal mass-murderer) loses her memory, and becomes a lovely new person. Then her memory comes back and she has to fight between her new self and her old self.

In cases of temporary memory loss (say for a year or so) where a person goes on with their life, and continues to develop as a person, could they have a clash between their “old-self” and “new self” once they regain their memory?

For instance, if they feel in love with a black person and then remembered that they are a vicious racist. Or if they were nice to everyone, then remembered that they are a cranky git.

My instinct is no, but I was just curious.

2

Sorry this should be in General question. Sorry.

3

Since the whole concept of recovered/repressed memory has been found wanting, there ain’t a lot to answer this question with.

4

Thats what I get for watching too much TV.

5

I understand also that when twins are born, it isn’t necessarily the case that one of them is evil.

6

The OP wasn’t talking about repressed memory, but recovered memory. You certainly can recover memory, and retrograde amnesia is a real phenomena. Repressed memory is bunk.

7

Just what we’d expect an evil twin to say!