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screen memory

Psychoanalysis a memory that can be tolerated and is used unconsciously as a screen against an allied memory that would be distressing if remembered

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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