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MENDOZA GARCIA, Jorge. Concise route for the social forgetfulness. Polis [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.2, pp.129-159. ISSN 2594-0686.

The 20^th Century, as positivist as it claims to be, as a prospector of locations, deposited several activities or psycho-social processes in a place where they would be easily locatable; and not very imaginatively, it put them in the individual, specifically inside his head. It did as well with perception, and thought; as for memory and forgetfulness, it individualized them. Since one took control of the mind, it positioned forgetfulness in the head, inside our brain. The present essay digs the site where it was left: in other words, culture, the social thing. Thus, the essay offers a hypothetical thesis of social forgetfulness, tracking its origin; immediately afterwards, it characterizes forgetfulness from different angles so to step up to the different forms that has taken. It gives sample of its rhetoric, and makes a brief route of the way in which it has been put to practice at different times and places. In the end it shows how memory has resisted in the face of attack by the groups that have tried to impose forgetfulness, and the sense of remembering events of the past.

Palavras-chave : forgetfulness; rhetoric; forms; implementation; disputes; memory.