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Just came across this passage from the I Ching that serves as the eigraph for Young-Bruehl's and Bethelard's book, Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart:

Times of growth are beset with difficulties. They resemble a first birth. But these difficulties arise from the very profusion of all that is struggling to attain form...So too the superior man has to arrange and organize the inchoate profusion of such times of beginning, just as one sorts out silk threads from a knotted tangle and binds them into skeins. In order to find one's place in the infinity of being, one must be able both to separate and to unite....It is important to seek out the right assistants, but he can find them only if he avoids arrogance and associates with his fellows in a spirit of humility...

— "Difficulty at the Beginning," I Ching (3)

Breaking is about the struggle to attain form by newly separating so as newly to unite.