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Psychoanalysis can create convincing but untrue screen memories during treatment. These constructions may mask painful past conflicts, hindering true analysis if accepted as fact.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Screen memories can re-emerge or form anew during psychoanalytic treatment.
  • The process of reconstruction in psychoanalysis can lead to the development of screening phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the relationship between psychoanalytic reconstruction and the emergence of screening phenomena.
  • To propose that psychoanalysis can foster mutually agreed-upon, yet potentially untrue, screen constructions.

Main Methods:

  • The paper discusses theoretical aspects of screen formation within the analytic context.
  • It examines factors contributing to screen construction, including regression, superego injunctions, and analyst influence.
  • A case example of a repressed memory is analyzed through the lens of screen reconstruction.

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