Sentence:  So much then for my intellectual formation, or, if you prefer, my "cultural baggage," constituted for the most part of lacunas and contained in the kind of colander that is my brain, retaining here and there a few scraps of knowledge, at least consciously, for after all it is possible that the <WSD>ingurgitation</WSD> of Kant and Spinoza, as with mathematics, forcibly as it were, and of which I do not have a very clear recollection either, may, without me knowing it, have contributed to shaping it ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of swallowing greedily or immoderately; gulp.