La memoria impedida en Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to argue that an impeded memory, devoid of a symbolic dimension and "subtracted from time", treated in "Memory, History, Forgetting" poses a limit not originally contemplated in the narrative solution of the aporia of time, as presented in "Time and Narrative". However, we find several elements that lead to blur the difference between impeded and manipulated memory. Our hypothesis is that by resourcing to Freudian metapsychology, and specifically its concept of work, prevents Ricoeur from fully developing this limit. We turn to Certeau's theses about historical writing as a sepulture gesture, to develop this limit and determine the ways to overcome it.