This fabrication unfortunately appears in the German translation and probably others. Although Rank's theoretical odyssey came to a dead end, his life abides as a human triumph. They are not, however, makers of actualities, but makers of possibilities. The creativity of culture has no outcome, no conclusion. It does not result in art works, artifacts, products.
Creativity is a continuity that engenders itself in others.
Artists do not create objects, but create by way of objects. When I finally came to my first hour with Rank, while conciously submissive, afraid, and fully aware of my ignorance of psychoanalysis, my underlying attitude was far from humble. I was, after all, a psychologist. I had some knowledge of myself and my problems. I had achieved a point of view psychologically.