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This paper attempts to reactivate the process Freud designed in his Psychopathology of Everyday Life, to account for his inability to recall the name of the painter Signorelli, who created the Orvieto frescos. The analysis of residual elements—IO tied to the name BOLTRAFFIO and ELLI which appears in BOTICELLI—summons a game of opposition between I and HE, which finds its resolution in the forgotten surname Signor-ELLI: “He is the Master.”