The absence of early memories and the obliteration of the mother’s impact on the child that occurs with primary narcissism, according to Rene Roussillon, may have a presence in the psychoanalytic process, where an impactful maternal environment is recapitulated as unseen forces contribute to changes in the self. Without memory of an early environment that was influential, specific resistances occur-some undetected by the analyst. Roussillon proposes reconstructing the obliterated past as an essential part of the treatment. I will demonstrate the patient’s often formidable resistance to the reintroduction of the early environment. Moreover, I propose that not only is the mother and the entire process by which it occurs obliterated, but the analyst—perhaps especially the female analyst—is also erased. A question about the existence of primary narcissism remains unresolved in the literatue. I suggest, nonetheless, that listening with attention to the patient’s associations for how the environment has been erased—whatever we call it- is crucial.