The phrase "object of memory" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to describe something that a person holds fond memories of. For example, "The house on the beach was an object of memory for many of the residents of the town."
"The time after a show is just as interesting to me," he said the other day, "because then it becomes an object of memory, and its meanings change".
It distinguishes between property as the object of memory ("memory of property") and property as a medium of memory ("memory in property").
As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past.
She is coeditor of Women and Power in the Middle East and author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village, winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award and available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
She is the author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press), winner of the 1999 Albert Hourani Book Award given by the Middle East Studies Association, and the 1999 Chicago Folklore Prize.
She is also author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village and The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, and coeditor of Women and Power in the Middle East, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
"Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review". In Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader.
We must first form a true conception of these objects of memory, a point on which mistakes are often made.
While Aristotle, speaking on memory and recollection, notes: It is obvious, then, that memory belongs to that part of the souls to which imagination belongs; all things which are imaginable are essentially objects of memory and those which necessarily involve imagination are objects of memory incidentally.
Accordingly if asked, of which among the parts of the soul memory is a function, we reply: manifestly of that part to which 'presentation' appertains; and all objects capable of being presented (viz. aistheta) are immediately and properly objects of memory, while those (viz. noeta) which necessarily involve (but only involve) presentation are objects of memory incidentally.
Although this may sound like an overstatement, such objects of memory offer a way to affirm the fact that we exist and that our lives might hold some meaning.
