1Confrontations stimulate rudimentary Gestalten to develop Prägnanz, and are timely when the analyst thinks that once this is achieved, he would be able to interpret them (effect a closure) correctly, even if he had to utilize solely the material already available at the time when the confrontation was made.

2Interpretations—which reveal the repressed closure element of a neurotic Gestalt —are timely when the material produced by the patient has achieved an unequivocal Prägnanz. When several equally clear-cut ways of completing the Gestalt in a system-adequate manner are possible, the closure-element to be interpreted is the one which is compatible with the patient's main current preoccupations.