This article describes and enacts a process of autobiographical inquiry, auto/archeology, which seeks to address problematic confluences of memory and identity in reconstructing one's historical narrative. Drawing on curriculum theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author describes a process of excavation in which understandings of a prior selfhood are created via interactions with previously created artifacts--a creative non-fiction essay, in this case. The analysis of this essay, and the resulting reconstitution of a personal history, as well as its enduring effects on the author's present life and work, are provided as an example of how this process might be enacted as a technology for self-study, a pedagogical experience, and an exploration of the desirous nature of identity.