Malestar psíquico y la memoria colectiva. Análisis del relato de víctimas del conflicto colombiano atendidas por el servicio jesuita a refugiados - Ecuador

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to identify the function of collective memory regarding the processing of distress on victims of the Colombian conflict, by understanding the collective memory as a result of the interweaving of individual memories, of the singularity of the remembrances. A qualitative methodology and a phenomenological design were used. For data collection, semistructured interviews were carried out to cluster groups, equaling six persons who had been formerly attended by the Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados - Ecuador. For the production and interpretation, a categorical data analysis was performed. It states that individual memories construct collective memory, being impossible to comprehend one without another, as events do not occur to isolated subjects but members of groups, institutions or cultures. Likewise, it states that memory must be comprehended in its complexity, since it is related to historical, political and subjective processes, as well as in its transtemporality, the influx of the past in the present, and of they both in the future, in a manifest o latent manner. Finally, from the testimonies, two functions of the collective memory are acknowledged. One that allows the emergence of group identification and a sense of belonging. Another that permits the comprehension of the developments, which is the processing of a traumatic event.