A memória e suas transformações: articulações entre Sigmund Freud e Eric Kandel

Abstract

The theme of this research is the memory and its transformations, from the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences, represented by the works of S. Freud and E. Kandel, respectively. Its hypothesis is based on the fact that we found in Freudian metapsychology the recognition that the memories do not correspond reliably to the facts, what can be linked to neuroscientific evidence that the memory is subjected to reconstructions with the passage of time. The goal is to investigate what are the convergences between the theorizations of these two authors about changes in memory and, from that, outline possible connections, about some psychological and neurological processes that act in such transformations. For that, Freud's notions about mnemic retranscriptions, screen memories and Nachträglichkeit (après-coup) and also the consolidation and reconsolidation mechanisms of long-term memory described by Kandel are addressed. The developments of these articulations are also considered, for example, regarding the constructions and the temporality in psychoanalysis. The main convergence identified in the publications of these authors is the fact that the memory is susceptible to (re) constructions retroactively.