Abstract:
This article is part of the memory concept in Freudian psychoanalysis, in order to discuss the memory-oblivion dialectic more specifically in the context of culture. It discusses the complexity of the mechanisms present in oblivion from the notion of repression, and investigates further the unique relationship between forgetting and grief work to then infer its consequences for the individual, and for the culture. The effects of repression of the operation will be evaluated in some culture phenomena such as racism, the flange and, on the other hand, the invention of the blues as a result of grief operation, enabling the creation.
Keywords:
repression; racism; mourning; creation; blues