Looking for material for the commemoration of the centenary of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry, one of us (MD) found a word file signed by the other (AFL) and wrote to him to ask where he had published it. The author did not remember having written it (perhaps because it is the transcription of an oral intervention). Nor did the editor (who was the MD himself) remember having edited it (perhaps because it was a review of a few days in a blog from 2015 that cannot be found today).
Today the text takes on a meaning that we did not see then and that precisely has to do with forgetfulness. But not with ours personally.
There are periods of the more or less recent history of our country that we have managed not to remember. Sometimes it seems that between the “defeated and disarmed red army…” and Rock-Ola and Almodóvar’s cinema there was nothing but tedium and bad taste. But there were many other things. As it also seems that in the years of what was called the transition Only those who survived were there to tell a version of this that greatly favors them and is quite far from what they experienced. This orphan manuscript speaks to some of those things. Because it alludes, as context, to facts and movements that have been erased from the official history of the transition, then propellants from action and criticism. And in some way it remembers that its traces are traceable and that its trace can help us understand the current conservative and extreme right drift. And perhaps, feed a breath of hope.
Read manuscript: From AEN publications to the Collective Health Collection
Alberto Fernández Liria. Psychiatrist
2015
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