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Editorial

 Memorandum: memory and history in psychology
Number 8

Culture for memory and history

The eighth number of Memorandum focuses the theme of "culture" in three distinct perspectives: the cultural experiences that constitute psycho-social contexts, the contribution of phenomenology for the analysis of culture, and relationships between different approaches in History of Psychology and the cultural universes that produce them.
 

The first three articles aproach issues of psycho-social nature. 

“Memória social e saudade: especificiades e possibilidades de articulação na análise psicossocial de recordações” by Adriano Roberto Afonso do Nascimento and Paulo Rogério Meira Menandro starts from the observation that, in Brazilian social context, memory and nostalgia are deeply connected, indicating the importance of the affective component in the mnemonic content, which has implications for the analysis of psycho-social recollections. 
 

The article “Mudanças sociais e familiares na atualidade: reflexões à luz da história social e da sociologia” by João Carlos Petrini analyzes the typical process of rationalization of modern society and the crisis of illuministic reason upon which it was founded. Among the consequences, the author points out an anthropological mutation in family relationships.
 

“Movimento dos trabalhadores rurais Sem Terra, Contestado e Canudos: algumas reflexões sobre a religiosidade” analyzes these three rural social movements pointing out religiosity as their common denominator. It also questions the Marxist and pscyhoanalytical theoretical references regarding the role of religion, which, in the movements that were studied, assumed a meaningful role in the process of strengthening the collective actions against alienation.   
 

A second set of articles is dedicated to Phenomenology. “Formação da pessoa e caminho humano: Edith Stein e Martin Buber” by Miguel Mahfoud presents a comparison between the elaboration of essencialist Stein and existencialist Buber pointing the specificities but also strongly converging elements, although reached by independent ways, regarding the constitution of person.
 

In “Medea fra presente e passato” Angela Ales Bello shows that the the Husserlian method of phenomenological archeology allows a reading of literary texts originating from distant historical periods gathering elements of nearness regarding fundamental human problems.
 

“Desenvolvimentos da fenomenologia nos Estados Unidos da América e na Grã-Bretanha” by Patrizia Manganaro provides information about the history of phenomenology in those regions. It also points the most meaningful contributions regarding interdisciplinary and intercultural programs.
 

The third and last group of articles presents contributions in the area of history of psychology.
“Origens e desenvolvimento da psicopatologia do trabalho na França (século XX): uma abordagem histórica” by Lílian Erichsen Nassif analyzes the social-historical context determining the formation of the field of study.
 

In “El impacto de la Psicología Neoescolástica Experimental en Argentina, a través de libros de psicología de circulación en el país: 1935–1965” María Andrea Piñeda utilizes the socio-bibliometric method to investigate the presence of that psychology in educational institutions.
 

The article “A importância da educação e da tradição: lições do jornal religioso Selecta Catholica (1846-1847) sobre o cultivo das faculdades da alma e do espírito humano” by Raquel Martins de Assis analyzes the contribution of that vehicle of communication for the constitution of educational models in nineteeth-century Minas Gerais.
 

“Nossa Senhora das Maravilhas: corpo e alma de uma imagem” by José Eduardo Ferreira dos Santos and Marina Massimi presents the complex meaning of sacred images in Baroque culture, including the effects on the psychic dynamism, examining particularly the case of that meaningful statue for the history of the city of Salvador, in Bahia.
 

“Verdade e desejo: a hermenêutica confessional como condição de surgimento dos saberes psi” by Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira presents a Foulcaultian interpretation of the emergence of psychology and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the importance of Christian ethics for the very  constitution of hermeneutics.

 Miguel Mahfoud
Marina Massimi
Editors
April of 2005