PAST AND PRESENT MEMORIES AND VIOLENCE IN EVERYDAY SOCIAL RELATIONS.

This article is about forms of practice and memory related to an ominous social and cultural period-the last dictatorship-that the various governments of the democratic period presume to have moved beyond. After more than twenty years of democracy, forms of authoritarianism persist in the present like reminiscences of the past. It is proposed that these forms are present in different rituals and symbols and are expressed in everyday social relations, in public, private and intimate spaces. Certain forms and relations of the past do not remain solely as evocation and remembrance; rather, some aspects of this past are manifested in the present, through practices guided by common sense and routinized institutional mechanisms.. The legacy of an ominous past weighs heavy on a national culture that occludes debate through mechanisms such as denial and Manichaeism.