Oriented around a discussion of Dr Barratt’s recent paper published in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, which participants will be expected to have read in advance (available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41282-024-00474-0). Concepts such as the historicity and historicality of psychic reality will be reviewed as well as Freud’s notions of screen memories and of the processes of Nachträglichkeit. There will also be an exploration of the hauntological proposition that the present is affected by what did not happen in the past. Clinical examples will be given whenever feasible.