screen memory

American  

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.

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screen memory British  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of screen memory

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Whether, and to what extent, individual women were really immersed in this turmoil is hard to know or even recall, because the ’80s are largely experienced now through screen memory — almost no other decade in recent history seemed to unfold more like a trend story of the least subtle kind.

From New York Times

Why should they jack up their products’ prices by selling you a screen, memory, processor, microphone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when you’ve already got all of that in your pocket?

From New York Times

The major causes for this problem are programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. :mouse elbow: /n./

From Project Gutenberg

The major causes for this problem are programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. :mouse elbow: n.

From Project Gutenberg

The major causes for this problem are programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use.

From Project Gutenberg