The "screen memory" is a term stolen from psychology that describes a fictional construction of memory traces (usually traumatic) that compulsively or automatically intervenes to color and shape our experience of "what is there." It seeks to re-construct experience in its terms (a "fictional goal") and is another way to describe the Gu or corruption that fixates us on the past as a kind of hell perpetually repeated (like the characters in Dante's Inferno who have no sense of time passing, locked in a frozen moment with no end and no beginning.
I came across this idea as I tried to understand just how the "transformative" (bian) energy in a Line works and just what it works on. The Lines are the "place" of transformation and it seemed to me each has a Voice, a sort of agenda and an obstacle to be transformed within the individual. The screen memory is the psychic enactment of the obstacle to transformation.
Stephen Karcher