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In the context of alcoholism, the organization of unconscious memory traces makes therapy extremely difficult. The case of psychic activity in the service of amnesia (forgetfulness as an unconscious repression effect), of repetition (acting instead of remembering), or of hypermnesia (psychic memory, often traumatic in nature) is developed more specifically through a metapsychological analysis of memory changes. Whatever their nature (loss, violence, sexual abuse, etc.) or their form (amnesia, repetition, or hypermnesia), these memories might not be integrated into a psychic dynamic that would enable them to build history. Then, the alcoholic subjects may keep inscribing themselves in the actions or the facts of past or present events without being able to elaborate their memories. From an etiopathogenic hypothesis of memory disorders in alcoholic behaviors, the psychological treatment of the memory trace is analyzed at the level of the original unconscious processes, of the primary unconscious processes and of the secondary processes.