1.2 Personal vs Collective Memory Memory contributes to the One of the functions of the collective memory construction of our identity both of a community and the stories that compose on an individual and social level, it is to give continuity to the identity of the a binomial in which memory social group and the values and beliefs that acts both as an identification sustain it. In this sense, collective memory cannot be clearly differentiated from factor and as an approval and individual memory since the latter, at least membership factor collectivity. according to current conceptions, expresses Collective memory is both the a wealth of memories and knowledge that, foundation and expression of a although they base an individual identity, group’s identity and represents are the result of interaction and the the past: each group constantly social exchanges of the individual with his environment and with the groups. selects and rearranges the images of the past, in relation to In this sense, the collective and individual the interests and projects that dimensions of memory are in a relationship predominate in the present. of mutual influence since the interpretation that we give of the facts and of our identity is influenced by the values and beliefs of the community and of the groups to which we belong, communities that we in turn help to build; In this perspective, more akin to the current epistemological paradigms of a constructivist type, memory, whether individual or collective, always assumes a dialogic character as a reconstruction of relational events, between the individual and the groups to which it belongs or between the groups. group as a whole and the other groups with which it interacts. On the border between collective memory there is a free space by conditioning, where to express our personality, where our choices take on value and meaning. 20