THE SCREEN MEMORY DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER EMERGED IN THE second year of the analysis of an 8-year-old boy. Like all screen memories, it involved a seemingly unimportant event in the life of a young child. It was remembered with unusual detail, in contrast with the rather ordinary quality of the content and with the way in which it was related. The child remembered and related the event as if he were an interested onlooker, rather than the main participant. The repressed, significant events covered by this apparently indifferent memory were early seductions which occurred when he was about 2½ years old. The uncovering of these seductions was, of course, extremely important and became a major part of the analytic work. However, just as important, and striking for me, was the way in which the screen memory became a "tool" and a reference point throughout the analysis, facilitating the general understanding of this case and highlighting the multiple uses of one piece of material recovered in the course of treatment.