title: [Creativeness as a potential for survival in the abyss between fear of and longing for death].
abstract: On the background of a creative psychotherapy with a young man covering the antagonism between Eros and Thanatos creativity is presented as a power not only mediating between destructive and constructive processes but integrating itself into the personal image and sense of life. Thanatophobic regression metamorphosizes into courage for life, the ability to face transitoriness and to discover the power of phenix in it which creates new creations.
authors.affiliation: FMH für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, gestaltender Psychotherapeut, Basel.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Waser
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013561:Symbolism
vernacular_title: Kreativität als Uberlebenschance im Abgrund zwischen Todesfurcht und Todessehnsucht.