Catherine Kolko’s *Les Absents de la mémoire* is a concise psychoanalytic study concerned with the persistence of absence in psychic life. Taking memory as more than simple recollection, the work examines how missing persons, unresolved losses, and unspoken histories continue to shape thought, speech, and relationships. Its title points to a central question: how does what is absent remain active within memory, and how does analysis give form to those traces? Written within contemporary psychoanalytic debate, the book offers a focused reflection on gaps, silences, and the emotional weight carried by what has not been fully remembered or mourned. At 112 pages, it reads as a compact intervention for readers interested in psychoanalysis, memory, mourning, and the ways absence can structure inner experience.