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Editorial

 Memorandum: memory and history in psychology
Number 7

  

World, history and culture: senses to be disclosed

It is a pleasure for us to present the seventh number of Memorandum.

First of all, the present number features some contributions regarding the phenomenological approach in psychology. Phenomenology as a proposal of an interpretative universe of “interiority”: to understand the world of praxis to reach the human operations that make it possible, is the content of the review The Universe in the consciousness by Bianca Maria d´Ippolito, about the new book of Angela Ales Bello. Patrizia Manganaro delineates the history of the phenomenological movement in Belgium and the Netherlands in the article The development of phenomenology in the Low Countries. In fact, Husserl and his disciples develop analysis regarding the living forms– psyque, one´s own body -, material nature, space-time and cultural forms such as science, State, community, religious experiences, in a way that links psychology with the areas of philosophy, history, religion, anthropology and social sciences.

In second place, it is approached the always contemporary theme of the distinctions and relationships between individual and collective memory. The article Individual Memory and Social / Collective Memory: considerations in the light of Social Psychology, by Solange Epelboim, proposes a confrontation between the psychological and sociological versions of the confrontation of the psychological and sociological versions of the issue.

In third place, we enter into the domain of history, in the many facets of the history of cultures, history of psychology and of the psychological ideas present in diverse cultural expressions, such as literature, theology, spirituality, philosophy, medicine, etc, in different geographical contexts, such as the Western and Eastern worlds, Brazil and Latin America. A first group of articles that approach the history of the psychological ideas and the interfaces with cultural history, art history, the history of spirituality and literature: World and psyche conceptions on the ancient civilizations: China, India and Egypt, by William B. Gomes; A librarian in his library: Cassiodorus and the ideal reader in the Middle Age by Giulia Crippa; Experience as factor of knowledge in the philosophical-psychology Aristotelic-Thomist of the Society of Jesus (16th and 17th centuries), by Paulo Roberto de Andrada Pacheco; A single regimen for body and soul: Luigi Cornaro (1467-1566) and Leonard Lessius (1554-1623) treatises by Paulo José Carvalho da Silva; Saint Micheal, The Souls of Purgatory and the scales: Iconography and veneration in the Modern Epoch by Adalgisa Arantes Campos; Representations of the concept of unconscious in the workmanship of Machado de Assis by Sávio Passafaro Peres and Marina Massimi.

A second group of articles discusses themes that refer  to the institutionalization of scientific psychology in Brazil and Latin America: Brazilian medicine courses in the 19th century: contributions toward Psychology by Ana Maria Jacó-Vilela, Cristiane Ferreira Esch, Daniela Albrecht Marques Coelho, Marcelo Santos Rezende; Origin and social relevance of a laboratory of psychology in Brazil in the 1950’s by Elizabeth de Melo Bomfim and Maria Teresa Antunes Albergaria; Beginnings of professionalization of Psychology in Argentina, the National University of Cordoba and neoscholasticism by María Andrea Piñeda.

At last, we dedicate a space to the memory of Professor Carolina Martuscelli Bori, whose presence will remain, forever, as a fecund reference for the Brazilian psychologists, due to her capacity of being an educator and builder of psychology in Brazil – bath as a science and as a profession -, always alert to the historical process and aiming at a vast horizon.

The importance of the history of cultures to the psychological studies and also to the history of philosophy, is due to the fact that they bring up the basic questions regarding the relationships between universe, body, psyque and spirit. According to François Dosse (2004), history documents the fact that the human being, through his acts and speeches, is a messenger of senses that the human sciences are called to disclose. Therefore, it is established a profound relationship between psychology and the other human sciences, philosophy and the history of cultures.

In its turn, the study of cultures, in time, is made possible by the permanence, preservation and availability of written sources in form of texts, preserved in archives and libraries. The iconographical sources also constitute a rich material for cultural history. It is at this level that is posed the question regarding mapping and preservation of historical sources – as resources for historical and psychological knowledge. What are we – as psychologists – looking for in these ancient documents? Diverse modalities of understanding and using experience – a founding concept in psychology. Literature, for example, possesses a particular modality of approaching experience; as does the universe of spirituality and theology. These modalities, in their turn, form the basis of many forms of psychological care and diverse types of therapeutical resources.

The relationships between psychology, history and culture do not concern only the psychological knowledge that preceded the advent of scientific psychology. In fact, the beginnings of psychology as a modern science depended on many cultural influences (of medicine, of philosophy, of natural sciences) and of diverse cultural subjects (medical doctors, philosophers, religious groups, scientists). Scientific psychology, in itself, is a cultural entreprise, whose very possibility of being is determined by a cultural context.

 Miguel Mahfoud
Marina Massimi
Editors
October of 2004

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

Ad Hoc Consultants of Memorandum 7


Ana Silvia Volpi Scott
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brasil


André Luís Masiero
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
Brasil

Biagio D’Angelo
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae
Perú

Carlos Alberto Filgueiras
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brasil

Dante Gallian
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Brasil

José Paulo Giovanetti
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brasil

Luís Miguel Carolino
Universidade de Évora
Portugal

Raquel Martins de Assis
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brasil

Roberto Sagawa
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
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

Caio Boschi

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
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
Luís Carlos Villalta

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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

Eugénio dos Santos

Universidade do Porto

Portugal

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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