A memória e o princípio de perda.

Five ambiguous ideas may be provided among the common sense notions of human memory: a single memory, defined as a strictly particular cognitive faculty whose function would be remembrance and, for this very reason, destined to represent the past whose traces would have been registered deliberately and explicitly. With these ideas in mind and based on the article by Juan Besse and Cora Escolar, by Ana Maria Sosa González and Maria Leticia Mazzucchi Ferreira and by Francisco Ramos de Farias, current article proposes a) that human beings are endowed with a variegated type of memory; b) that these memories are social; c) that their function is simultaneously the remembrance and acknowledgement of the past and its forgetfulness; d) that these memories are primarily at the service of the future; e) that they are the product of non-conscious acquisitions. The main argument engaging the discussion of the three articles is that human memory is subordinated to the loss principle. It involves selection, elimination, modification of past events under the effects of a set of cognitive, psychological and socially-limiting activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]