There are two kinds of memory, traumatic and non-traumatic memory. Non-traumatic memory is just that, a memory. This is the kind of memory that has neutral or positive feelings. This is "you can laugh at yourself" kind of memory. Any memory about past events that you can look back without negative feelings.
Traumatic memory is memory that still has negative feelings attached to it. Carl Jung call this a Complex, such as Inferiority Complex. This memory is actually about something that we were not competent about, such as problems or mistakes. This is the memory we haven't "let go". It is as if our mind is still trying to solve the problems. Our emotion takes over in moments of incompetence or our emotion let us know "Conscious Incompetence" and our mind picks up where it left off.
We misidentify with the 'Incompetent I" and call it the "I".
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