prememory

Noun

prememory (usually uncountable, plural prememories)

1. (usually) .
   • The postmemory of rape not only haunts the present, however, as do the postmemories of children of Holocaust survivors, but also reaches into the future in the form of fear, a kind of prememory of what, at times, seems almost inevitable: one's own future experiences of being raped.2002, Susan J. Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, Princeton University Press, page 87
   • […] prememories from the past fed into new memories of taking up arms in defence of Ireland, which in turn served as prememories for future memories. In this cycle of recurring episodes, volunteering was essentially an act of loyalism […]2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular..., page 54