Memoria emotiva de konstantin stanislavski biography

The acting technique was abandoned by its originator, Konstantin Stanislavski, but lived on in one of his disciples, Lee Strasberg

(by Carmichael Phillips)

(Photo by Claudia on Unsplash)

Affective memory is one of the original techniques in Konstantin Stanislavski’s “System”.

Also known as “emotional recall” or “emotion memory”, it later formed one of the central elements in Method Acting, as taught by Lee Strasberg. Affective Memory calls on the actor to recall emotions the actor felt in their own lives and inject those emotions and feelings into their character, when their character faces similar circumstances.

For example, an actor’s character might have the emotion of deep, uncontrollable love toward another character in the script.

This feeling, given how emotional and expressive it must be portrayed, may be difficult for an actor to produce.

To arrive at this emotion, the actor migh