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Clinical material is used to illustrate two important aspects of the termination process. The first is its relationship to mourning. The author distinguishes between real loss and the neurotic perception of the transference, and believes that the analyst should acknowledge both. The second is that during the termination phase the analyst should recognize elements of the postanalytic mourning experience and help the patient become aware of the future work of handling the loss.