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The author discusses several additional aspects of the fragmentizing function of the ego as he conceptualized it in his 1961 paper. During a single analytic hour, phases of fragmentizing may develop into integration which then leads to another phase of fragmentation. Interpretation is most effectively timed when it occurs at the point of transition from fragmentation to integration, or vice versa.