ABSTRACT
The most obvious reason, that the patients did not volunteer screen memories so that the opportunity to analyse them was not the norm in clinical experience, itself raised the question of the how and why of this lack. The author understands the literature, loss of interest in reconstruction of the history, and in screen memories as part of the process of reconstruction, is not true of all United States analysts. True that as L. LaFarge mentions, S. Freud initially placed high hopes on the analysis of screen memories, which he saw as the gateway to grasping the totality of the patients' history, a view that he repeatedly returned to and voiced till the end of his life. The author focuses on the waning of screen memories is that the changes in child psychopathologies have for decades mitigated against the kind of keen attention to one’s mind and to one’s own milieu that the build-up of screen memories requires.
