CONNOTATIVE SPECTRUM OF NOTION MEMORY

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of problem of memory functioning in modern scientific literature. Especially with the problem of memory of definitions with various connotations, for example, collective, individual, historical, national, communicative memory, etc. The differentiation of individual and collective memory as separate concepts has substantiated, however are interconnected, but reproduce the past differently. The difference between the mechanisms of formation of these memory types has established. There has indicated that individual memories are always a product of personal and social. Individual memory, including autobiographical, although of a subjective nature, is mostly designed under the influence of socially predetermined factors such as language, religion, customs, traditions, etc. Instead, communicative memory is a family, social, national, historical memory inherent to a particular community over a relatively short period of time. As a variety of communicative memory historical one is a peculiar multicomponent mix, a phenomenon in which gain clarity absolute, undeniable values that become universally recognized. At the same time, it is an important component of self-identification of the individual, the social group and society as a whole. In order to ensure the complete conditions of life in society, the individual needs to be identified with a particular social group, which already has its own self-identification. In its turn, cultural memory is marked by a time period of more than three generations and is represented by certain symbols, myths and beliefs inscribed in the text. There has confirmed that the demarcation between communicative and cultural memory as varieties of the collective is rather relative, since the elements of one and the other can interpenetrate and manifest in each of the types of memory that is observed in the representation of the past. The concept of national memory is based on the related categories of collective, historical, cultural, individual, biographical memory. The national memory is the base of self-identification of society and acts as a statebuilding category. It allows to link the past with the present and has the ability to influence the future, provides community presence of common roots and common future. There has established that in the conditions of interdisciplinary discourse is quite problematic to differentiate all these concepts according to logical principle, and is sometimes impossible.