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The author discusses the links between psychoanalysis and archeology, just like S. Freud started to observe them using archeology as a tool for revealing and understanding obscure mechanisms of the unconscious world. Archeologists don’t work on the past, which no longer exists, but on the past things that remain in the present: monuments, rare and surprising objects, but also and especially vestiges; in other words waste and scraps. Although inanimate, these remains are not sluggish: they record and accumulate some memory under the effect of repetition, or more exactly reproduction. It is not some sort of human memory, but much rather a material memory, made up of accumulations of changes, overlays of traces, successions of deposits. In becoming stratified, this material memory transmits inheritances, which produce so many effects of transmissions-transformations of forms, creating morphological constraints that directly affect the present. Although inanimate, archeological material is therefore a hybrid, active compound, carrying memory that is active even though it has historically ended, the dynamic of which is none other than that of reiteration.