 To respond obsessively just to one need—by choosing to separate "totally" or to merge "totally"—is to have the other thrown back at one's self.According to Rank (1929–31), "Birth fear remains always more universal, cosmic as it were, loss of a connection with a greater whole ["einen größeren Ganzen"], in the last analysis with the 'All' ["dem All"] ...The fear in birth, which we have designated as fear of life, seems to me actually the fear of having to live as an isolated individual, and not the reverse, the fear of loss of individuality (death fear).