Starting from the principle that object representations (like all memories) are encoded not once but many times over (Freud, 1950a [1887-1902]), we would suggest on the basis of the observations reported in the previous four chapters that objects are represented as a cascade of mnemic traces that stretch from whole-object representations (closely tied to concrete perceptual images) encoded at the relatively superficial level of the right perisylvian cortex, through the (symbolic) word-presentations that are encoded in the left perisylvian cortex, down to narcissistic object representations which we believe (for reasons that will be outlined in this chapter) are structuralized largely on the basis of physiological modifications that occur in the ventromesial frontal region.