Concept Formation, Remembering, and Understanding: Dynamic Conceptual Semantics and Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" Renate Bartsch Abstract: Concept Formation, Remembering, and Understanding: Dynamic Conceptual Semantics and Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu" Renate Bartsch Abstract: This study presents a theory of memory and remembrance, which is a further explication of the theory of Dynamic Conceptual Semantics (developed in Bartsch 1998 Dynamic Conceptual Semantic: A Logic-philosophical Investigation into Concept Formation and Understanding, and in Bartsch 2002, Consciousness Emerging: The Dynamics of Perception, Imagination, Action, Memory, Thought, and Language. First, an introduction is given to concept formation, remembering and understanding, and it is pointed out how phenomenological data and dynamic conceptual semantics have a correspondence in neurological structures and processes, which provide the capacity to concept formation and understanding. In the second chapter, a model of memory is given which shows how the specific memory (consisting of indices for episodes and individuals) can work as a capacity for constructing remembrances, by connecting to general memory (consisting of conceptual indicators and their inter-connections) and to emotional, sensorial, and motor fields. In the third chapter, the theory and model is related to Bergsons philosophy of memory, and it is applied to Marcel Prousts novel A la recherche du temps perdu. It is shown that and how Prousts novel exemplifies concept formation and understanding as based on the capacity of general and specific memory, how concept formation and remembering result in understanding new episodes based on previously experienced episodes and result in the structure of the life-history in the consciousness of the Narrator, which is the structure of the novel. The interaction between the unconscious and the conscious states of the Narrator are especially attended to. In this context Prousts aesthetics is analyzed.