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Editorial
 
Memorandum: memory and history in psychology
Number 4

Possible unities:
body-psyche, popular culture – academic psychology
 

This fourth issue of Memorandum: memory and history in psyhology is made up of six articles which will be presented as pertaining to two types of concerns.

The first, which has a methodological emphasis, highlights the importance of collective memory in the context of Psyhology and the History of Psychology, in different perspectives: first of all, as something to be safeguarded; second, as a resource to bring together academic psychology and popular culture and its traditions (see article by Bairrão e Leme); third, the importance of collective memory in researches that associate identity to History of Psychology (see article by Baptista); and, last but not least, memory approached in its relationship to narrative as a method towards the construction of History of Psychology (see article by Olmos).

The scope of the second group is an important epistemological question raised by researches developed in the area of collective memory which emphasize the psycho-physical unity of the human being and, therefore, underline the need for a methodological corpus in psychological research that permits the apprehension of this unity. It is in this sense that we feature as an innovative contribution in the ambit of psychology the Husserlian proposal of “phenomenological archeology” and its current perspective given by Angela Ales Bello: as a matter of fact, the article by Ghigi presents the importance of the hyletic sphere (in its connection with human corporality) for the apprehension of intentionality in its structure and origin, in which the rational tools deafen and, consequently, give space for objects and moods to speak up. The rigorous apprehension of the hyletic moment in real subjects and cultures would allow us, supported by the psycho-physical unity, to apprehend unity in diversity. A similar unitarian approach towards the knowledge of the human being, this time based on Aristotelian-Thomist Psychology, characterizes the Baroque culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the article by Zanlonghi indicates the recognition, in that culture, of the impossibility, by the ontological condition of the human being, to reach plenitude without corporality and the affects as source of vitality and psychic energy, from which derive the pedagogical importance given to the theatrical activity, in which the education of the soul and the body are inseparable. According to Thomas Aquinas, cited Zanlonghi, "ipse idem homo est qui percipit se intelligere et sentire" (Summa Theologiae, I, q.76, a.1): it is the same man who perceives, understands and feels. In this Thomist perspective the psychic sphere called “inner feelings” is a point of convergence between the sensitive and the intellective potencies, in a way similar to Husserl’s hyletic dimension.

In the culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this articulated idea of corporality and psychism reaches the popular culture through two important means of expression: theater and preaching. The article by Zanlonghi shows that the inseparability between word and image in the Jesuit theatrical experience made possible the creation of a space both psychological and of knowledge in which memory, imagination, affects, and intelligence used to converge. The work by Majorana, in its turn, points to the existence of the same kind of articulation, in the same historical period, in what regards to preaching, above all to the illiterate populations: in effect, everything regarding the person and the conduct of the missionary preacher that falls into the sphere of the sensitive acquires a power of persuasion superior to that of the simply preached word because it corresponds to the feelings and convictions lived with sincerity.

Memorandum number 4 gives, therefore, a contribution to the challenge facing  Psychology of considering popular culture at once attentive to a methodological corpus able of apprehending such articulation and to History, which shows the concrete possibility of psychological and gnoseological conception culturally rooted.

 Miguel Mahfoud
Marina Massimi
Editors
April, 2003

Editorial Board
Editors
Miguel Mahfoud
Universidade Federal de Minas
Brasil
Marina Massimi
Universidade de São Paulo
Brasil

Ad Hoc Consultants of Memorandum 4

Carlos Ziller Camenietzki

Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins

Brasil

Dante Gallian

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Brasil

José Paulo Giovanetti

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Lísias Negrão

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Marília Ancona Lopez

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e Universidade Paulista

Brasil

 

Advisory Board

Adalgisa Arantes Campos

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Alcir Pécora

Universidade de Campinas

Brasil

Angela Ales Bello

Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis

Italia

Aníbal Fornari

Universidad Católica de Santa Fé

Universidade Católica de La Plata

Argentina 

Anna Unali

Università La Sapienza

Italia

Antonella Romano

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

France

Belmira Bueno

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Celso Sá

Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

Brasil

Danilo Zardin

Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore

Italia

Ecléa Bosi

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Francesco Botturi

Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore

Italia

Franco Buzzi

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italia

Gilberto Safra

Universidade de São Paulo

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Brasil

Helio Carpintero

Universidad Complutense

España

Hugo Klappenbach

Universidad San Luis

Argentina

Isaías Pessotti

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Janice Theodoro da Silva

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

José Carlos Sebe B. Meihy

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Josef Brožek

Lehig University

United States of America

Luís Carlos Villalta

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Brasil

Luiz Jean Lauand

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Maria Armezzani

Università degli Studi di Padova

Italia

Maria do Carmo Guedes

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Brasil

Maria Efigênia Lage de Resende

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Maria Fernanda Diniz Teixeira Enes

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Portugal

Martine Ruchat

Université de Genève

Suiss

Michel Marie Le Ven

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Monique Augras

Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Brasil

Olga Rofrigues de Moraes von Simson

Universidade de Campinas

Brasil

Pedro Morande

Universidad Católica de Chile

Chile

Pierre-Antoine Fabre

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

France

Regina Helena de Freitas Campos

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Sadi Marhaba

Università degli Studi di Padova

Italia

William Gomes

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Brasil  

 

Board of editorial consultants

Adone Agnolin

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Ana Maria Jacó Vilela

Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

Brasil

André Cavazotti

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

Arno Engelmann

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Bernadette Majorana

Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Italia

César Ades

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Davide Bigalli

Università degli Studi di Milano

Italia

Deise Mancebo

Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

Brasil

Edoardo Bressan

Università degli Studi di Milano

Itália

Giovanna Zanlonghi

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italia

José Francisco Miguel Henriques Bairrão

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Marcos Vieira da Silva

Universidade Federal de São João del Rei

Brasil

Maria Luisa Sandoval Schmidt

Universidade de São Paulo

Brasil

Marisa Todeschan D. S. Baptista

Universidade de São Marcos

Brasil

Mitsuko Aparecida Makino Antunes

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Brasil

Nádia Rocha

Universidade Federal da Bahia

Brasil

Rachel Nunes da Cunha

Universidade de Brasília

Brasil

Raul Albino Pacheco Filho

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Brasil

Vanessa Almeida Barros

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Brasil

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