The Memory Hole Podcast
by Jena Martin
Latest episode
S3. Episode 8: Mind Body Metaphors
S3. Episode 8: Mind Body Metaphors
About this podcast
A bystander looks back at the mental health crisis known as the Recovered Memory Movement of the late 1980's and early 90's. What can that era teach us about psychic epidemics and human susceptibility to fashions?
jenamartin.substack.com
Episodes
The newest 20 of 24 episodes
- S3. Episode 8: Mind Body Metaphors · 47 minFor complete show notes please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Featured guests: Gabi Jones https://gabisvintage.substack.com/ Edmund King…
- S3. Episode 7: Making up people · 41 minFor complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Philosopher Ian Hacking https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking Social…
- S3. Episode 6: "A Marvelous Thing" · 31 minFor complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Baaken Museum https://thebakken.org Franz Anton Mesmer…
- S3.Episode 5: Capital H Hysteria · 24 minFor complete show notes, visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: Carl Jung https://jungpage.org Frances Hill: A Delusion of Satan…
- S3. Episode 4: The Image of the Hysteric · 35 minFor complete show notes, please visit https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast Referenced: The Yellow Wallpaper, full text…
- S3. Episode 3: If it's hysterical, it's historical · 31 minReferenced: Opening clip: Dream Crazier, 2019 Nike Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc06cIrvXE From Paralysis to Fatigue, Shorter…
- S3. Episode 2: Bound by Culture · 29 minHow much of our self-understanding is essentially untranslatable? References: Brian Eno on culture https://musicthoughts.com/t/114…
- S3. Episode 1: The Symptom Pool is Cerulean Blue · 31 minTopics include: Pegged, cuffed, jeans https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6pNd2muy6a/ Season 1 of the Memory Hole Podcast: The Courage to Heal…
- The Memory Hole Podcast, Season 3: Trailer · 3 min · Season 3Season 3 of The Memory Hole Podcast is coming soon. Tune in to hear from the voices featured here, and others: Ethan Watters https://substack.com/@ethanwatters1 Terri Kapsalis…
- Listen now: My July 2025 conversation with Dan Savage · 22 minI’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…
- S2. EP.5 Fictional Memories: Past, Present, and Future · 42 minNicholas Dames https://nicholasdames.org/contact-2/ Pride and Prejudice Inside Out 2 - Nostalgia Dan Chaon https://danchaon.com/ Olivia Gatwood https://www.oliviagatwood.com/ Kat…
- S2.EP4. The Mirage of the Zeitgeist · 28 minTwin Peaks The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, by Jennifer Lynch Katie Roiphe's Harper's article about incest-related fiction can be accessed here, on my website…
- S2. EP3. In Search of Lost Time · 36 minFeatured in this episode: Kate St. Vincent Vogl Andromeda Romano-Lax -Andromeda's novel, now in paperback The Tell by Amy Griffen Remembering Molly - Immediate and delayed…
- S2. EP2. Remember the Memory, Solve the Crime · 33 minWhy do people still believe in repressed memories? It's a mystery. In this episode: The first detective novel: The Moonstone Wilkie Collins and the Birth of Amnesia; Nicholas…
- S2. EP1. Tell Me A Story · 23 minTell Me A Story; an introduction to Season 2 Memory's misuse in storytelling I made a second season because I wondered - why, if the recovered memory movement is over, do so…
- Trailer for Season 2 · 3 minWelcome back to the Memory Hole. This trailer features interviews with authors Andromeda Romano-Lax and Kat Rosenfield. Complete links to guests and sources will be provided in…
- Ep. 6: What did we learn? · 41 minShow notes for Episode 6: Carrie Poppy https://maximumfun.org/about/team/carrie-poppy/ Historian Edward Shorter From Paralysis to Fatigue; a history of psychosomatic illness…
- Ep. 5: Forget Me Not; how we don't remember · 35 minOpening: The Confessions of St. Augustine, AD 401 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm Interviews: Dr. Henry Otgaar Personal Website Maastricht University…
- Bonus: Crews on Freud · 30 minThis is a bonus episode, to bring you more from my interview conducted on June 28 2023 with Dr. Frederick Crews, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California at…
- Ep. 4: The Fog of War; believing the unbelievable. · 40 minFrom Freud to Geraldo Show Notes: Frederick Crews is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California at Berkeley. His many books include The Critics Bear It…







