 Art and the creative impulse, said Rank in "Art and Artist," "originate solely in the constructive harmonization of this fundamental dualism of all life" (1932/1989, p. xxii).On a macrocosmic level, the consciousness of living—the dim awareness that we are alive for a moment on this planet as it spins, meaninglessly, around the cold and infinite galaxy—gives human beings "the status of a small god in nature," according to Ernest Becker