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A woman in analysis expressed in various interconnected ways, in two successive analytic sessions, her unconscious infantile longing for the analyst to caress and kiss her. This wish, heavily disguised, appeared in a request for a change of her customary appointment, in an error as to the actual time of the appointment, in the free associations, and in a dream occurring between the two sessions. This observation demonstrates the integrative nature and synthetic function of the ego even during seriously regressive periods.