Collective Memory and Political Authority

Abstract

The collective memory is one of the most important topics that emerged in the fifties of the last century, it represents the feeling of individuals and social groups in various forms in particular, which leads to the formation of a common national identity, each social group has a collective memory that specializes in and represents it, while the collective memory is the memory of social groups, the purpose of which is to recognize the other and search for commonalities in multiple societies and melt these groups in the crucible of citizenship, which leads to building a national identity.