Archives and forum of history: memory and desire in the transmission of culture

Authors

  • Cristiane Rose Duarte Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo; Programa de Pós- Graduação em Arquitetura
  • Paula Uglione Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (FAU - UFRJ); Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1980-4466.v0i11p136-151

Keywords:

Archive, Memory, History

Abstract

This article presents a thought on the notion of archive in the contemporary thinking, through two theoretical perspectives, that is, the psycoanalytical theory and Pierre Nora's historical approach. While the psycoanalytical theory and its unfolding theories lead to the desiring character of the whole assembly of archive in the culture, Pierre Nora sees in the archive commitment of the present society a process of historization of the world, which means the end of a live memory in the culture. Under the psychoanalytical view, it can be understood that if there are differences between memory and history, one of them is in the marks that desire and fantasy leave in any archive. Unthinkable marks in a history considering the reconstitution of the past as it happened. If history is a protesis, as NORA (1997) regrets it, it is just because, above all, memory is an invention.

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Published

2011-04-01

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Section

Colections and Archives

How to Cite

Duarte, C. R., & Uglione, P. (2011). Archives and forum of history: memory and desire in the transmission of culture . Revista CPC, 11, 136-151. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1980-4466.v0i11p136-151