Abstract

GONZALO SANCHEZ, G.. The psychoanalists, guerrilla and memory. anal.polit. [online]. 2005, vol.18, n.54, pp.81-87. ISSN 0121-4705.

This article is presented as a reflection on the occasion of the launching of issue N° 4 of From Freud’s Garden magazine dedicated to the subject of "Memory, forgetfulness, forgiveness, revenge". The author of the article points out how the psychoanalysts entered in an open dialogue, in this volume in particular, not only with history but with other social sciences not only to scrutinize the past but to decidedly confront the present, the subject of the war and the uncertainties of the postwar. In fact, in the presentation page, the editors point out as context of this thematic number on Memory, forgetfulness, forgiveness, revenge the growing worldwide interest on this chain of feelings and the urgency of Colombians to approach them in face of the "current negotiations with the paramilitaries". For the author, history as a discipline does not seem so far as psychoanalysis. Both develop their own techniques and strategies to make visible what has been made invisible and to reestablish the sense of what has been excluded, suppressed or covered up. Thus, history as well as psychoanalysis certainly have a privileged relation with the past. Both disciplines occupy themselves of the selection of what is memorable and what must be forgotten on the light of certain conditions or requirements, since we know from "Funes el memorioso", that an unlimited memoir leads to confusion and hinders conceptualization.

Keywords : psychoanalysts; war; memoir.

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