Desejo e passado: observações sobre a tensão entre memória e rememoração na psicanálise freudiana

Abstract

Freudian psychoanalysis carries in its heart the idea that certain mnemonic inscriptions exerts great influence on behavior without consciousness having access to them. On the one hand, it is assumed that the events of childhood profoundly shape the destinies of psychological functioning and, secondly, that such marks are inaccessible as such. We will follow a few of Freud's remarks towards the establishment of the intelligibility of this twofold thesis on metapsychological level. This path will be followed under the light of some clinic phenomena that have imposed the enigma of memory: screen memory, infantile amnesia, dreams and transference.