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The phenomenon of screen memories seems to have been forgotten in contemporary psychoanalytic theory, and to have lost its relevance in current clinical practice.
In this book the editors, Gail S. Reed and Howard B. Levine, reexamine Freud's original paper on screen memories (1899) through the lens of contemporary psychoanalysis. They present a rounded view of recent analytic thinking on screen memories by collecting essays from eight prestigious psychoanalysts, diverse in their theoretical and geographical backgrounds, and challenge the reader with discussions on the current therapeutic applications of screen memories.
In their introduction Reed and Levine write that “whether one is referring to the concept, the paper by Freud, or the general clinical phenomenon, screen memories are full of rich and complex psychoanalytic ideas. When one begins to contemplate them, they immediately lead to more ideas and richness: the nature of memories, forgetting and remembering, the use of distorted memories to obscure unconscious content, the