screen memory

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screen memory

A memory of something that is unconsciously used to repress recollection of an associated but distressing event.

screen memory

(Psychology) Psychoanal a memory that is tolerable but allied to a distressing event and which is unconsciously used to hide the distressing memory

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screen memory - an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance

memory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"

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screen memory n (Psych) → ricordi mpl di copertura

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