Modern conceptions of memory embody a dimension of this faculty that is fundamental to the approach: the intimate connection it maintains with the present, the present character that has memory. For Gaston Bachelard we do not remember by repetition, but by composing the past according to what is at stake in the present. Therefore, for human consciousness nothing would simply be presented, but everything would be represented. In this sense, memory does not restore the past, does not reproduce it, nor does it allow it to be established: memory reveals no more than the "present of the past.”