Notes about lieux, space and memory

Abstract In these notes on the nature of one's own places (lieux), starting from the mental condition of the recollection and the unavoidable relationship of the recollection itself with the general structures of memory, we analyze the relationship of belonging as part of the theoretical premise to possible reasoning about personal space and its plural forms, the territory and the landscape, in the sense of anthropization and re-perception. The lucid and enlightening analyzes of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Thedor Reik have been integrated into what is meant to be a minimum path of reasoning on the preliminary activity to represent as an operation of mimesis. We have pointed out some of the fundamental linguistic mechanisms that govern the translation actions that each act of representing implies at the same time of its implementation. The subject is shown as part of the process, of which it is not only an efficient cause but participates in the formation of each mimetic mechanism through the different internalizations of the notion of place. A final segment is dedicated to the transformation of the relationship between lieux and work.