One hears and reads that analysts have an unusual memory, that they remember everything about everything. This stock of complete memories goes far beyond the assumed fundamental removal of the analyst's personal repressions or, to put it more modestly, the assumption of an interior life less subject than others to neurotica. To explain this important tool of psychoanalytic work, Barande emphasizes identification with the patient and the dyad formed as a result. She feels that the past, as François Pasche has suggested, is "recomposed" in analysis, and thus, in a sense, the analyst and patient experience this "recomposed" or reconstructed past together.