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Baranger describes the living and reliving of sickness in a patient's fantasies, and the patient's acquisition and use of insight. Insight produces a well-organized conception of the patient's external and internal worlds and of himself and his sickness; of what is good and bad, of love and hate. Proper objective evaluation of the external world permits better understanding of internal feelings and thoughts. Insight serves as an integrative force by revealing the structure of psychic reality. It is similar to scientific or artistic intuition. This redistribution of the elements of reality and the discovery of new ones gives a wider perspective and greater scope to the ego. Insight permits discrimination of love from hate. It supports the mechanisms of restitution, symbolization, and sublimation. Clearer awareness of what is external and what internal permits better use of introjection, projection, and other ego mechanisms. Acuteness of perception of body image (of the person inside the body) lets the ego recuperate and integrate its functions. The person becomes able to comprehend and express in an integrated way the bodily, symbolic, and verbal aspects of the personality.