Individuation
"The most terrifying burden of the creature is to be isolated, which is what happens in individuation: one separates himself out of the herd. This move exposes the person to the sense of being completely crushed and annihilated because he sticks out so much, has to carry so much in himself. These are the risks when the person begins to fashion consciously and critically his own framework of heroic self-reference.
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"Here is precisely the definition of the artist type, or the creative type generally." — Ernest Becker; The Denial of Death, p. 171
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