https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manqu%C3%A9
Rank regarded the neurotic as a failed artist (artiste manqué), paralyzed by the fact that life is bounded by non-existence at one end and death at the other. By contrast, the creative person willingly accepts life as a loan, for which death is repayment. The artistic type alternates between separation from, and union with, the group (family, society), living with “affirmation of the given” and its “creative appropriation” (Rank, 1932, p. 64). (p. 321)
Lieberman, E.J. (2012). Rankian Will. Am. J. Psychoanal., 72(4):320-325
