The Stranger's Myth: anchoring and objectification of social memory
The Stranger's Myth: anchoring and objectification of social memory

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to explore how social representations occur in intercultural communication, analyzing the stranger's myth based on the processes of objectification and anchoring, both depending on personal and social memory. The stranger, seen as (the alien, the other, the foreigner) is not a traveler who comes and leaves, but rather a person who comes and stays forever. We consider the subject from the viewpoint of foreigner perceived as enemy, conqueror, to depict the effects of the behavior on the social life. In the assumed topic we comprise the self-identification as a process of delimitation, taken into account that we are what we are comparing with the other. Of great relevance in our approach is the theological dimension which sends us to Alterity perceived as God. The hypostasis of Alien is another coordinate of the proposed study, which generated a special literature, filmography and a unique public.

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