Abstract

What we do produces structures. What we think produces mentalities and ideologies. What we say produces speeches. What we remember produces History. In this way, it is almost like affirming that both the construction of the historical narrative and its transmission are an exercise in memory, but this is not the case because, strictly speaking, the historian in his profession makes relatively little use of the memory. In reality, the historian makes more use of his ability to relate facts, ideas, concepts and emotions, seeking to articulate them in a narrative whole that makes sense and that describes the past in the most approximate way possible, always bearing in mind that his reconstructive narrative it is just one of many possible perspectives that could be used to explain the occurrence of things.