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In the current definition of the screen-memory, the fantasies or affects that are the source of repression remain tied to infantile experiences. In spite of certain incisions in Freud’s work highlighting the role of adolescence, this conception, which revisits posthumous memories reactualized during adolescence, has remained the usual representation of the concept, following the focus on the essential function of infantile sexuality in Freud’s work. The articulation between the infantile and the pubertal insists however in certain parts of Freud’s work: despite two significant occurrences in 1899 and 1900, an aspect of Freud’s theorization often remains forgotten: it is not only historical elements of the infantile past that are “covered” by the screen of the sweet memory, but also fantasies and pubertal events that evade to better come to be lodged in a childhood memory that acts as a screen.