Abstract:

Where is the collective memory? Two different concepts of collective memory compete with each other; one represents the gathering of individual memories within a social framework in one pot, and the other represents a specific social phenomenon. However, the difference between these two is rarely included in the text on the subject. This article is a theoretical effort on the difference and relationship between individual and social concepts of collective memory. The first of these concepts takes into account psychological factors along with neurological and cognitive factors, but leaves both memory technologies other than the brain and social processes in which cognitive and even neurological pathways form partly. Secondly, while he emphasizes the ways in which public and personal memory becomes social and cultural patterns, he ignores the way in which it is possible to occur by partly psychological dynamics. This article suggests bringing a new and multi-dimensional strategy to the possible harmony between individual and collective approaches through traumatic events examples.