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Memory work Memory work is a process of engaging with the past which has both an ethical and historical dimension.〔(2004) Gabriel, Barbara. "The Unbearable Strangeness of Being; Edgar Reitz's ''Heimat'' and the Ethics of the Unheimlich" in ''Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject'', edited by B. Gabriel and S. Ilcan. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.〕 ==History and memory== The premise for memory work or ''travail de memoire'' is that history is not memory. We try to represent the past in the present through memory, history and the archives. As Paul Ricoeur argued, memory alone is fallible.〔(1955) Ricoeur, Paul. ''History and Truth''. Translated by C. A. Kelbley. Evanston: Northwestern University press. (2nd edition 1965)〕 Historical accounts are always partial and potentially misrepresent since historians do not work with bare, uninterpreted facts. Historians construct and use archives that contain traces of the past. However, historians and librarians determine which traces are preserved and stored. This is an interpretive activity. Historians pose questions to which the archives responds leading them to “facts that can be asserted in singular, discrete propositions that usually include dates, places, proper names, and verbs of action or condition”.〔(2000) Ricoeur, Paul. La Mémoire, l'Histoire, l'Oubli: l'ordre philosophique: Éditions du Seuil, p.226〕 Individuals remember events and experiences some of which they share with a collective. Through mutual reconstruction and recounting collective memory is reconstructed. Individuals are born into familial discourse which already provides a backdrop of communal memories against which individual memories are shaped. A group's communal memory becomes its common knowledge which creates a social bond, a sense of belonging and identity. Professional historians attempt to corroborate, correct, or refute collective memory. Memory work then entails adding an ethical component which acknowledges the responsibility towards revisiting distorted histories thereby decreasing the risk of social exclusion and increasing the possibility of social cohesion of at-risk groups. The concept of memory-work as distinguished from history-as-memory finds a textbook case in the Vichy Syndrome as described by Rousso.〔(1991) Rousso, Henry. ''The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944''. Translated by A. Goldhammer. Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press.〕 His title uses medical lexicon to refer to history-memory as dependent on working consciously with unconscious memories to revise accounts of history. This calls for an expanded archive that includes the "oral and popular tradition"〔(2004) Gabriel, Barbara. "The Unbearable Strangeness of Being; Edgar Reitz's Heimat and the Ethics of the Unheimlich" in Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject, edited by B. Gabriel and S. Ilcan. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 11〕 as well as the written traditions normally associated with the archives.
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