Entre o lembrar e o esquecer: reflexões sobre a memória e o esquecimento a partir de Nietzsche e Bergson

Abstract: This work aims to highlight the continuous game and the paradoxical relationship established between memory and forgetfulness based on the contributions of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. We will follow the hypothesis that the origin of memory and consciousness in Nietzsche is very close to that made by Bergson in Matter and Memory. I will try to expose how memory in Bergson arises in the interval between action and reaction, at the moment when man hesitates, organizes and selects the new movement. The same hesitation movement occurs in Nietzsche, when man abandons the "animalistic" realm of the instant and begins to calculate and plan his actions. In the meantime, when man acquires the capacity to remember and distances himself from the instinctive animals, forgetfulness becomes vitally important, according to Nietzsche, since an excess of memory can resent and sadden the body. In Bergson, on the other hand, the brain mechanism - an organ of attention to life - also occupie

Object Details

• Alternative title: Between remembering and forgetting: reflections on memory and forgetfulness from Nietzsche and Bergson
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Portugiesisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia ; 22 (2022) 1 ; 85-94

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Philosophie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Lucena, Ludymylla

Further information

• DOI: 10.31977/grirfi.v22i1.2762
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023010407130012428406
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:35 AM CEST