After doing some research, I found that there were focuses on different types of memory including prospective memory, long term memory, social/cultural/collective memory, working(short term) memory, spatial memory, para-textual memory etc.

While we may generally conceive of memory being one general concept in everyday life- research reveals that there is a lot of depth and breadth in this area.

Academic Articles

Lost forever or temporarily misplaced? The long debate about the nature of memory impairment– By Larry Squire

Squire, L. R. (2006). Lost forever or temporarily misplaced? The long debate about the nature of memory impairment. Learning & Memory,13(5), 522-529. doi:10.1101/lm.310306

Explores the debate in memory studies regarding the memory storage process and memory loss being temporary or permanent.

Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states: retrieval, behavior, and experience– By Bennett L. Schwartz & Janet Metcalfe

Schwartz, B. L., & Metcalfe, J. (2011). Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states: Retrieval, behavior, and experience. Memory & Cognition,39(5), 737-749. doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0066-8

About the tip-of-the-tongue state, the brain and behaviour processes related to this state.

Seven types of forgetting– by Paul Connerton

Connerton, P. (2008). Seven types of forgetting. Memory Studies,1(1), 59-71. doi:10.1177/1750698007083889

Connerton outlines seven actions that are included in the concept of ‘to forget’. These include “repressive erasure; prescriptive forgetting; forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity; structural amnesia; forgetting as annulment; forgetting as planned obsolescence; forgetting as humiliated silence.”(Connerton, 2008)

Web Articles

Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting– By Margaret Morganroth Gullette at https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/opinion/22gullette.html

This New York times article is about the fear of forgetting in modern society.

You Have No Idea What Happened– By Maria Konnikova athttps://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/idea-happened-memory-recollection

Explains the unreliable nature of memories

Your pictures on the theme of ‘memory’ at https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-47330954

A weekly BBC segment where they post a series of readers’ submitted pictures on a given theme which in this article was ‘memory’.

Memory Hoarding in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)– By OCD Center of Los Angeles at https://ocdla.com/memory-hoarding-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd-1964

An article by OCD Centre of Los Angeles that introduces the concept of ‘memory hoarding’ in OCD. People suffering this experience a heightened fear of forgetting greater than normal to the detriment of their quality of life.

Also I found an audio discussion about memory on BBC’s programme “In our time” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548yy. I may try to listen to more of these kinds of audio or video informatory media to gain mroe understanding of this theme of losing a memory.