Authority،identity and formation of collective memory

Abstract

  Identityis one of the topicsthat have emergedsince the mid-twentiethcentury،especiallyafter the end of the Second World War. Identityis an individual or collective feeling of the self، and itis a product of self-awareness،that I or wepossess distinctive qualities as identitythatmakes me differentfromyou، and makes us differentfromothers، and identityneedsmemoryCollectivelydeveloping and transferring the past to the present to express the belonging of individuals and determiningtheiridentity، but thisprocessisopposed by the politicalauthority،whetheritis a democracy or a dictatorship to redefine the identityaccording to reconstructing the collective memorythatis in fact the outcome of the collective memoriesthatexist in every society characterized by pluralism، and usingthismemory as a tool to legitimize The origin of political power and the justification for its continuation as an imposed power within a societalcontext

Keywords: Identity،authority،memory، the self، society