Day Residue and Screen Memory in Freud's Dream of the Botanical Monograph

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ID8333307
AuthorsStanley R Palombo (George Washington University, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume36
Issue4
Pages881-904
Publication date1988-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306518803600402
PMID3235760
OpenAlexW1996214111
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited4

Freud's theory of dream construction allowed the censorship to intervene only when a repressed infantile wish emerged from the unconscious. In his (1899) paper on screen memories, however, he proposed a mechanism for the defensive displacement of current events as they are sorted for introduction into permanent memory. I suggest that Freud was actually describing the conflictual process through which the day residue of the dream is formed. Day residue and screen memory are closely related as elements of the dreamer's present and past experience displaced from his more central instinctual concerns. Freud's dream of the botanical monograph clearly illustrates this relation. Substituted day residues were matched in the dream with relatively innocuous memories of past events of similar cognitive and affective significance. By retracing the substitutions, one can see how a current conflict over Fliess's role in the writing of the dream book recapitulated a series of Freud's earlier conflicts concerning his father and the power of books

Censorship · Cognition · Dream · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Relation (database) · Theology · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Themes in Literature Analysis

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