Abstract

TORRES SAENZ, Jorge. The Machine Duras: Memory without Memories. Hist. graf [online]. 2012, n.39, pp.45-65. ISSN 1405-0927.

This essay analyzes the scope and possible implications of Michel Foucault's concept of memory without memories or memory and amnesia, the centerpiece of his mediation of the work by French writer and director Marguerite Duras. A textual analysis reveals the possible ways in which memory is ordered and how a process of forgetting is activated. In examining this process, a body of language is considered and it is argued that it provides the mental material to render events a reality at the same time that this body of language erases traces of memories or distorts memory. In order to abrogate representations, a transformation of the original formulation must take place thereby triggering another process, what Foucault refers to as the "exterior salvage."

Keywords : Marguerite Duras; Michel Foucault; memory without memories.

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