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In many long-term analyses there comes a time when the character is revealed, the conflicts are clear, the self-understanding is significant, and the repetitions are predictable. The patient talks freely, but there is an underlying sameness to the talk and to the life. So then what? How does the analyst help the patient move to the next phase when everything seems known and understood, yet there is no fundamental character change?