QAACC TITLE : Memory, Forgetting, History QUOTATION Notre sens de la vie dans le temps est ette polarite entre

!ne memoire vive, !n present a ti" et !n "!t!re vivant# A$%UMENT From t&e video , in Fren & T&e memory is si ' , sin e ()*+, si ' o" too m! & si ' o" not eno!g&, a s&ame"!l "orgetting , o!-li &onte./ T&ere is a "ri tion -et0een testimonies and do !ments, -e a!se t&e "ormer did no 'no0 0&at 0as to ome a"ter, 0&ilst t&e se ond t&ro!g& &istorians &ave t&e "!ll pi t!re# Can t&e &istorians1 &istory !re t&e memory -y -eing a riti al2t&erape!ti instr!ment3 It is t&e narrative t&at translates t&e individ!al memory into t&e olle tive memory as it ma'es it p!-li O!r li"e is in "a t t&e story o" o!r li"e History is t&e s ienti"i 0ay o" organising narrative# Colle tive memory is a 0ea' notion "rom a s ienti"i point o" vie0, -!t strong "rom t&e point o" vie0 o" t&e olle tive lived e.perien e# Can 0e transpose t&e individ!al pat&ology to a olle tive pat&ology# T&e spe tre o" memory t&at &a!nts t&e present# T&e mo!rning40or' , travail de de!l/ is an a tive pro ess to interiorise t&e loss into a memory t&at is not only pain -!t an -e lived 0it&# In t&e same 0ay t&ere is an a tive pro ess o" memory40or'# I" 0e don1t do t&ese travail and p!t t&e past in its pla e, t&e past &a!nts !s# It is -e a!se 0e are not a-le to deta & o!rselves o" t&e o-5e t o" love2&ate t&at 0e are not a-le to do t&is memory and mo!rning40or'# 6 levels o" &istory (# do !menting , s ienti"i and made o" "a ts 7# e.plaining, 8!alitative as 0ell as 8!antitative and made o" a!se and e""e ts 6# interpreting, made o" les grands re its , Fren & $evol!tion, $enaissan e History m!st tell t&e same t&ings in di""erent 0ays and "rom t&e Ot&er1s point o" vie0

Forgetting is ne essary and ta'e s&ape as sele tion 9ele tion o" memorising, o" narrative, o" &istory :e m!st ;de"ataliser< t&e past, to p!t o!rselves in t&e position o" t&e a tors in t&e past 0&en t&ey did not 'no0 0&at 0as to ome= t&is allo0s "or a more "orgiving !nderstanding# T&e !re o" t&e memory onsist in "inding and saving t&e promises non4ten!es, so as to play t&e ard o" de"atalisation# T&is means to p!t o!rselves -a ' in t&e sit!ations !n ertain o" t&e past, sit!ations 0&en 0e did not 'no0 0&at 0as to ome# QUE9TION

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