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screen memory

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screen memory [′skrēn ¦mem·rē]
(computer science)
The portion of a microcomputer storage that is reserved for setting up screen formats.
(psychology)
A consciously tolerable but usually unimportant memory recalled in place of an associated important one, which would be painful and disturbing.


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Only on closer inspection does the paint itself become apparent, betraying the screen memory of childhood fantasy and its enduring legacies.
All are titled Screen Memory, with the parenthetical titles Family Room, Sister's Room, Brother's Room, Father's Room, and Mother's Room.
As I will argue over the course of this article, Malerba's protagonist is marked by such a condition of psychotic uncertainty as to the borders between self and other, the origins of which are to be found in the screen memory that opens the novel.
 
 
 
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