Another complexity of the dynamics of depression that we overlooked was the one that Rank taught us: the urge to immortalization and self-perpetuation by pleasing the other, by conforming to the code of behavior that he represents. People hunger for immortality and get it where they can: in the small family circle or in the single love object. The transference object is the locus of our conscience, of our whole cosmology of good and evil. It is not something we can simply break away from, as it embodies our whole hero-system.

• depression
• psychology
• rank
• assimilation
• conformity
• transference
• immortality ideology
• religion
• the fourth way
• aim
• love
• good and evil
• self
• family
• conscience
• evil
• behavior
• immortality
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