Based in three freudian similes, our path intents to circumscribe the concept of memory with which psychoanalysis deals. This notion, according to Jacques Lacan, bears the incidence of the symbolic register since it's beginnings. In an articulation with what seems an excess, with what is not embodied by the significant, but that appears as the rest of this operation that inscribes it in the psychic apparatus, we try to foresee what puts itself as a paradoxical presence that returns and does not subject itself to the principle of pleasure. To have a notion of what is being articulated, we turn to the freudian concept of death instinct, Lacan's comments about das Ding and the incarnation of this rest, the object a.