Early memories, both painful and pleasant, tend to represent condensations of important early situations, relationships, and feelings that have been frozen in time. These memories, which are often introduced early in therapy and psychoanalysis, are condensations that convey the surface of internal object relations just as dreams and fantasies do. As such, they can provide important clues to events and relationships that subtly but surely continue to have a significant effect on a patient’s life through their internalization as psychic structure.