Re-member

Quick meaning: Re-member is a verb meaning (uncommon) To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered.

Meaning

(uncommon) To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered.

Example Sentences

This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is .

To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.

This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.

Word Forms

• re-members
• re-membering
• re-membered
• remember

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remuster, remingle, rejoint, rejumble, recompound, recompact.

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