 The individual urge to restore this lost unity is (as I have formerly pointed out) an essential factor in the production of human cultural values" (Rank, 1932/1989, p. 113).No one has expressed the conflict between the will to separate and the will to unite better than Ernest Becker (1973), whose award-winning "The Denial of Death" captured the largest—macrocosmic—meaning of separation and union for Rank