title: The role of insight in psychoanalysis.
abstract: I have described some of the vicissitudes of acquiring insight in both child and adult analysis, giving particular attention to the part played by the ego's synthetic, organizing, or integrating function.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003243:Consciousness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011340:Problem Solving; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*