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The 'good analytic hour', in which patient and analyst achieve new depth and clarity of understanding and insight, cannot be explained merely by the tendency of repressed material to reach consciousness. Such 'good hours' are, rather, the result of preconscious mentation, and are a reflection of the integrative function of the ego. Kris suggests that preconscious mentation may, in fact, explain most if not all significant intellectual achievements. Through its integrative capacities the ego prepares and arranges the configuration or structure of the material in such a way as to enable the analyst or the patient's consciousness to add that final step or phrasing that illuminates. This tends to occur after a resistance has been dissolved. Perhaps transformed aggressive energy, hitherto frozen in anticathexis, plays a specific role in the integrative functions of the ego. In instances of such real insight, the cognitive elements merge with a kind of assurance derived from 'the id aspect of insight'. Other functions of the ego, important for the production of insight, are the control of temporary and partial regression; the ability of the ego to view the self; and the ego's control over the discharge of affects. Without insight and those ego achievements leading to it there is no real analysis.