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Screen memory: There's a sketch of the team from the first five years of the McLaughlin Group.
What was recalled was not a genuine memory but what he would later call a screen memory, or fantasy, hiding a primitive wish.
Making screens, memory and processor chips as well as TVs, PCs and smartphones, the South Korean electronics giant relies on a "flywheel effect": when its smartphones sell well, its screen, memory and processor divisions pick up the pace too.
But at the same time that "Phonokinetoscope" and the other tragicomic shorts parody well-worn genres, they also provocatively mangle crucial psychoanalytic and philosophical issues, like "the repetition compulsion," "screen memory" and the nature of perception and consciousness.
In spite of plots, characters and situations plucked from the repertory of collective screen memory -- the sentimental gangsters, the world-weary newspapermen, the martyrs and heroes of liberal conscience -- Doctorow's books are in part meditations on the unreliability of storytelling.
Why should they jack up their products' prices by selling you a screen, memory, processor, microphone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when you've already got all of that in your pocket?
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Guardian Australia contributors share their most scarring screen memories and welcome you to share yours in the comments below.
Freudian concepts were taken up by intellectuals, who wrote about cathexes, screen memories, and reaction formations, and they were absorbed into popular discourse.
With his concepts of "screen memories" and Nachträglichkeit ("deferred action," or "afterwardness"), Freud described how memory is a palimpsest, a work of constant reconstruction, and how subsequent experiences can alter both the content and the psychological import of previous memories.
Cline, like many modern historians, is inclined to believe that legendary battles were actually screen memories of much longer processes, internally lit, in which the civilizations were undermined as much as invaded.
Feature-length arts documentaries are increasingly stylised with the sensibility of their subjects: BBC2's wonderful Sean Bean-narrated Ted Hughes documentary Stronger Than Death is a fascinating companion piece to Asif Kapadia's Amy, while Nick Cave's 20,000 Days on Earth orchestrates a collage of screen memories.
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