The starting point of our work is that there is not knowledge without memory. The social memory makes history as well as individual memoirs make stories of any person into one's society. So we will give an operative definition of two concepts of memory that are in proportion: the social and the personal memories.

To define the concepts of knowledge and memory we operate the etymo-logic or logic of etymon. Etymologically, "to know" means "to generate together" and "memory" (that has the same etymon of Latin word mens, "mind") means "vital force". Therefore, to organize the memory making a knowledge means to direct the vital force of interpersonal actions towards a thoughtful observation by a conceptual system.

We think that both historiography and psychoanalysis operate like that when they make a rational reconstruction of interpersonal actions, public and/or private. So we will analyse the conceptual structure of this rational reconstruction reasoning by induction from the psychoanalytical interaction.

Organized by:
Anna Ludovico (chair), Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Philosophy
Caterina Marrone, Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Philosophy
Paola Paulin
Eva Rosenholz