Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper has the purpose of rescuing the intellectual trajectory of Maria Emilia Amarante Torres Lima. The work of this researcher is an important testimony of the history of the Discourse Analysis of the French line, as well as the initial link of this discipline with Social Psychology. In her doctoral thesis, guided by Michel Pêcheux, Lima developed a pioneering study on the phenomenon of populism in Brazil from the analysis of the construction and operation of the speeches of May the 1st of Getúlio Vargas. However, this author’s work is little known both within Discourse Analysis and Psychology. In order to rescue this memory, we take as a theoretical-methodological contribution the studies developed by Jeanne Marie Gagnebin on memory and narration together with the concepts of archiving and reading-writing elaborated by Michel Pêcheux.

Highlights

  • The view we establish about the memory of the past depends on our relationship with the present moment

  • Between 1973 and 1984, she remained in France, where she had Pêcheux as her thesis advisor (LIMA, 1990) and research director in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) group.During that time, she kept her colleagues from the Social Psychology Sector in Brazil up to date on the development of ADA1, ADA2 and ADA3

  • She gave us access to texts by Jean-Jacques Courtine, Michel Plon, Paul Henry, Jacqueline Léon, Régine Robin, and several others by Michel Pêcheux (MACHADO, 2018, pp.14-15).24 à inovação representada pela automatique du discours (AAD) e simplificava a análise, limitando-a aos poucos recursos que tínhamos

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Introduction

The view we establish about the memory of the past depends on our relationship with the present moment. The concept of truth must cover the rooting and belonging that precede the relationship of a subject to an object, which, in turn, “is an attitude radically different from complacent, apathetic relativism, said postmodern, which, is nothing but the inverted and lackluster image of its opposite, the dogmatic positivism” (GAGNEBIN, 1998, p.217).6 This argument rescues the ethical dimension of the work with memory, showing us the historical and political content that mark this activity. The concept designates an investigative procedure composed of a set of strategies for the description of the different sayings inscribed in the field of archives submitted to an analysis.10 In this sense, the construction of the archive takes place under the work with memory. Let us move on to the unfolding of the plot that we wish to provide for reading

First Tracks of a Journey
Elaborating the Memory of Past
The Discursive Construction of the Brazilian People
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