Memory as a communication medium

Edmundo Balsemão Pires

Chapter 4 in Memory, Trauma and Narratives of the Self, 2024, pp 78-107 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, I follow the nuclear theses of my work Sequentiality of Meaning and Cognitive Forms to tackle the new challenges of a theory of memory. In a previous study on Pierre Janet, I sketched a communicative concept of memory from the philosophical and psychological classical themes of trauma, personality split and dissociations, amnesias, somnambulism, hysteria, and hypnosis, the permanence of memory traces or the definition of memory according to defined operations. This implied the recognition of the communicative character of recollection as an operation included in memory as a catch-all concept, for which a description of the addresser-addressee connective structure is fundamental. Here, I offer a broader theoretical context for the Janetian themes, including a critical assessment of the phenomenology of image-consciousness and time-consciousness (Husserl) and hermeneutic accounts of social memory (Ricœur). The methodological orientation was explicitly constructivist.

Keywords: Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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