Taking the position that any historical datum is not an unchangeable element, Baranger describes how she handles the transient changes in meanings and regression in specific patients. Her aim is to prevent the freezing of internal mental representations into inaccessible symptoms. If the internal mental representations (introjected love objects) are not fluid, the analytic situation will become a chaotic mixture of fantasies and mechanisms of defense. In successful treatment the infantile love object representations will be worked through and eliminated; they will no longer dominate the present and the future of the subject.