📖 Reminenses

Etymology. — From the Latin reminiscere ("to remember"), charged with carnal and emotional intensity. In its deepest sense, reminenses designate an involuntary sensory memory, buried in the flesh: past sensations — pleasures, embraces, beloved presences — forgotten by the conscious mind, suddenly resurface, intact and burning, upon the fortuitous contact of a touch, a perfume, a taste, a sound or a familiar texture, as if the body remembered more faithfully and more violently than the soul.

1. — Carnal memories or buried sensory traces, which return involuntarily, with an almost painful force, under the unexpected effect of a brush of skin, a rediscovered scent, a taste on the lips, a whisper or a simple texture (sheet, silk, hair), reviving in the flesh the entirety of a past embrace or desire. 2. — By extension. A state of voluptuous trouble where the body, independently of will, vibrates and ignites again, as if time had erased nothing of the original sensation.

Examples. — "A drop of her perfume on a forgotten scarf was enough: the reminenses flooded in, torrid, intact, as if their bodies were still pressed against each other in the shadows." — "The simple rustling of silk against her thigh awakened feverish reminenses; the taste of his mouth, the pressure of his fingers, everything came back at once, without her seeking it." — "Under the mechanical caress of the warm sheet, lascivious reminenses arose, violent, bringing back the exact warmth of his palms on her lower back." — "A taste of salt on her lips, found by chance, brought back burning reminenses: their moist skin, their mingled breaths, the urgency of an endless night."

Syn. — involuntary carnal memory, sensory echoes, resurrected shivers, buried pulsations, madeleine of desire. Ant. — voluntary memory, definitive oblivion, coldness of mind, rational detachment.

Derivatives. — reminensial adj.: possessing the power to involuntarily trigger an intense carnal memory. A reminensial perfume, a texture that makes the flesh tremble without warning. to reminense v. lit.: to be overwhelmed by the involuntary and sensual return of a past pleasure in the body. She reminensed at each brush of the wind on her neck, haunted by a vanished caress.

Domains. — Carnal and poetic literature: exploration of the involuntary memory of the body and persistent desire. Psychology of emotions and neurosensory: deep bodily imprint, more faithful than intellectual memory.

Stylistic note. — In suggestive prose, reminenses translate the victory of the body over oblivion: they arise without warning, through an innocuous sensory trigger, and bring back with an almost supernatural clarity the intensity of a carnal pleasure engulfed by time. Unlike voluntary memory — pale and reconstructed — they are vivid, immediate, almost painful in their precision, as if the flesh alone kept the truth of desire.