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After reminding us about the different categories and sub-categories of memory, short and long term, then procedural, semantic and episodic, we see that these three sub-categories interact and present blurred borders. By contrast, short and long-term memories differ not only in terms of their retention times, but also in terms of their modes of functioning. Thus cognitive treatment of short-term memory allows the extraction of information from its context and serves as a port of entry to the analogical stockage of long term memory. These facts accord with the majority of psychanalytical concepts, including that of repression.