This article discusses the relations between knowledge, community and culture from a psychosocial perspective. Departing from the concept of representation, I discuss the fundamental relation between representational process and context, understood as the historical, social, symbolic and cultural place of a human community. It is important to understand the representational process because it occupies a central place in the process of knowledge constitution: there's no knowledge that doesn't desire to represent. At the same time, the analysis of the representational form as a dialogical structure allows for the understanding of the socio-cultural relations that are to be found at the base of knowledge formation. The form of representation is as much the form of knowledge as the form of constitution of a social-cultural context.
Representational process; Social-cultural relations; Polyphasia
