The amnesia of the narrator, Marcel, in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is overcome by "involuntary memory" evoked by the taste of the madeleine. Chankin considers Marcel's memory from age seven of his mother's good-night kiss, when he was allowed to have her spend the night with him, as a screen memory, trauma, and oedipal victory-defeat. This memory is examined in depth as Chankin compares and contrasts Proust's method of searching for the past in "involuntary memory" with Freud's method of free association.