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How do we know when an analysis can be terminated? Our aim will not be to rub off every peculiarity of human character for the sake of a schematic “normality”, nor yet to demand that the person who has been “thoroughly analysed” shall feel no passions and develop no internal conflicts. The business of the analysis is to secure the best possible psychological conditions for the functions of the ego; with that it has discharged its task. (S. Freud, 1937, p. 250).