This is a study of psychoanalytic theory and possible technical use of confronting the patient with the auditory and visual image of his own psychological activities. The focus is on the patient's free association, particularly in relation to exploration of his identifications. It is shown that this technique may help the patient not only to become aware of his own current image, but to reexperience some of the historical antecedents. The technical possibility, as a supplement to psychoanalytic procedures, would be to repeat such confrontations to enable the patient to speak to himself with relatively little contamination