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Screen Memories

• The essay "Screen Memories" begins with a discussion of childhood memories.

• Freud argues that the childhood is the essential and formative period in the development of the adult psyche.

• He reasons that the age of six is when children begin to have narrative patterned memories.

• Freud suggests that the childhood memories we have as adults are merely constructions of our unconscious.

• He finds that our childhood memories are not memories at all.

• Freud reasons that there are abstract associations with some other important aspect of one's psychology.

• Freud claims that most childhood memories come from the ages between two and four.

• He finds that most adult memories tend to have a strong emotional power in that they tend to be events that were emotionally important.

• Freud finds that the opposite is present in childhood memories and that they are random and inconsequential.

• Freud reasons that two...

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