Frazzled - these very clear memories of things that did not happen are called Screen Memories - usually covering some other unpalatable thing.
Some body brought up Freud. He did not deny that child abuse happened - the Viennese police records of the period prove otherwise.
However in specific cases in his writings, cases such as the Wolf Man, Little Hans, Dora, the Rat Man, and others, he established that it would have been impossible in the circumstances - hence the new theory of Screen Memory. His critics go from these PARTICULAR cases, and extrapolate to the GENERAL, when Freud was only discussing one kind of suppression/distortion mechanism.
In other cases he openly admits discusses the unacceptable sexual behavior of adults towards his patients in childhood.
In some cases a screen memory can stand for a repressed memory of abuse as in the monotonous " somewhere a child is being beaten on its bare bottom", other times a clarinet is just a clarinet, despite the protestations.