Bergson conflates actual past events with present memories of them.

Evidence

This passage makes it quite clear that, when Bergson speaks of the past, he does not mean the past, but our present memory of the past. … The real past does not mingle with the present, since it is not part of it; but that is a very different thing. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2886

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Russell’s broader critique of intuitionism and anticipation of the analytic critique of continental metaphysics; connects to later debates on time (McTaggart, presentism). — connects to: Vivid childhood memories can be internally dated but factually false. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2135
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2886