Obviously, this is fascinating material for analysing the everyday workings of the psychological faculty of memory, and its dysfunction within its ecologically natural setting, but what also attracts our attention that this case study may symbolise the very phenomena we are confronted with collectively: the role of remembrance and forgetting under the name of social memory discussed in this volume. studies of memory have been, as Tanabe and Keyes have already indicated in their Introduction, limited to the model individual processing: input of the information into the mental database information in the forms of short term memory (STM), long term memory (TM), and of other different classifications; the act of remembrance is compared to the way such stocked memory in the mental database is retrieved as in the functioning of a computer (cf stillings et al model obviously imitates the internal structure of a computer's software, and as