Pasche argues that in the course of an analysis, the compulsion to repeat the past in the transference, together with the external frustrations of the analytic situation, leads to the recovery of actual memories. The analysand is compelled to represent, rather than act out his memories, and in so doing disengages his memories from repression. Since the memory can no longer be taken as a perception, the analysand is forced to move from the analytic "here and now" into the past and to place the images in their historical context, recovering the cathexes and fantasies that were attached to them. In other words, the memory becomes conscious. This is precisely the task of the analyst: to render the unconscious conscious. To do so, one must recover the many fragments and aspects of the remembered but repressed scene. Reconstructions are characterized by the recovery of specific details which are only contingently connected. As these details come into focus a particularly personal and individually significant scene is reconstructed. The patient may show some creative synthesis in this