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This article gives a clear description of the psychological determinants of a screen memory, and shows how they were woven into transference fantasies. Interpretations were skilfully made. Unconscious painful situations and affect were indirectly expressed in the 'screen' of the false memory. The screen memory appeared for the first time when the patient was five years old; it referred to a scene in her first year. The theme of the memory underwent secondary elaboration. At puberty the patient pretended to be asleep while her younger brother touched her. This scarcely disguised Oedipal activity, together with her mother's last pregnancy and the patient's becoming engaged, caused the screen memory to lose its effectiveness. The patient was unable to handle these new excitations. Her unresolved Oedipal conflict seems to have been the chief reason for her abandoning her defense mechanisms and developing symptoms. These symptoms were of three sorts: 1, magical gestures, mannerisms, propulsion of the arms, hysterical attacks, and an attack of fainting that occurred when she first had intercourse with her husband; 2, 'expulsive' symptoms, including vaginal discharge, vaginismus and frigidity, nausea, vomiting, and attacks of coughing with sputum; 3, mixed introjective and projective symptoms, including hallucinations in which she immobilized an incorporated object and then tried to get rid of it,—for example, she felt pins in her throat and strained to get them 'in or out'. Apparently she wished to incorporate the desired object (penis or