"Ida": Traumatic memory in the contemporary cinematograph

Abstract

The direct connection between a cinemaic text ("Ida" by P. Pawlikovsky) and some ideas of Husserl's phenomenology is traced. A phenomenological description of individual memory of the main characters of the film is made serving as the base for explication of relations to traumatic memory of the past that is present implicitly in the film. Two forms of the "oblivion"phe-nomenon are determined, the first being purposeful oblivion and the second - non-purposeful one.