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The Social Construction of Memory and Forgetting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Francisco Delich
Francisco Delich*
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National University of Córdoba
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Français, vous avez la mémoire courte (You French have short memories) was the title of a film showing in a cinema opposite Saint-Sulpice church. It was the early 1960s; scarcely 15 years had passed since the end of the Second World War and the horrors of Nazism had not yet been fully revealed. Germany was an occupied and divided country. France was fighting in Algeria.

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Diogenes , Volume 51 , Issue 1: Horizons of Memory , February 2004, pp. 65 - 75
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Copyright © ICPHS 2004

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Notes

1. Ernst Nolte, Intervista sulla questione tedesca, Alberto Krali (ed.), Saggi Tascabili Loterza, 1993.

2. Federico Finkelstein (ed.), Los alemanes, el Holocausto y la culpa colectiva. El debate Goldhagen, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 1999.

3. Daniel J. Goldhagen, Hitler‘s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, New York, Knopf, 1996.

4. Maurice Halbwachs, La Mémoire collective, critical edition prepared by Gérard Namem, Paris, Albin Michel, 1997.

5. Halbwachs, op. cit., p. 113.

6. Social Character in a Mexican Village: A Sociopsychoanalytic Study, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1970. The Spanish translation was published in 1973 by Fondo de Cultura Económica and reprinted in 1974 and 1979. The quotations here are translated from the latest Spanish edition.

7. Erich Fromm and Michael Maccoby, Sociopsicoanálisis del campesino mexicano, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1979, p. 158.

8. Halbwachs, op. cit., p. 134.

9. Jorge Luis Borges, Obras completas, Buenos Aires, Emecé, 1974, p. 1098. The long quotation from the short story Funes el memorioso (which was included in the 1944 volume Artifices) has been translated into English from the French translation by P. Verdevoye (Fictions, Paris, Gallimard, 1957 and 1965).

10. Joël Candau, Mémoire et Identité, Paris, PUF, 1998.

11. Halbwachs, op. cit., p. 50.

12. Ibid., p. 50.

13. Ibid., p. 70.

14. Ibid., p. 21.

15. Ibid., p. 25.

16. Ibid., p. 43.

17. Ibid., p. 42.

18. Roger Lewin, Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos, London, J. M. Dent, 1993, p. 150.

19. Ibid., p. 169.