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In psychoanalysis a screen memory is described as a memory of childhood characterized both by its exceptional sharpness and its apparntly trivial or insignificant content .
Screen memories are not preserved because of their content, but because of the way that their content relates to a content that has been subject to repression .
They literally screen or mask repressed memories .
The analysis of a screen memory leads to the discovery of indelible childhood experiences and unconscious fantasies , usually of a sexual nature .
See Also
Time, repetition, trauma
Repetition and compulsion Trauma and belatedness Encounter and automaton Memory, scene, and construction Clinical elaboration Temporality and retroaction
Psychoanalytic concepts
Registers and knotting Subject and Otherness Desire, lack, and object Drive and jouissance Language and the unconscious Sexuation and law Formation and identification Defense and psychic mechanisms Time, repetition, and trauma Clinical structures and symptoms Analytic technique and frame Affect and anxiety Discourses and social bond Formalization and topology Ethics and the act