[Creativeness as a potential for survival in the abyss between fear of and longing for death]. / Kreativität als Uberlebenschance im Abgrund zwischen Todesfurcht und Todessehnsucht.

On the background of a creative psychotherapy with a young man covering the antagonism between Eros and Thanatos creativity is presented as a power not only mediating between destructive and constructive processes but integrating itself into the personal image and sense of life. Thanatophobic regression metamorphosizes into courage for life, the ability to face transitoriness and to discover the power of phenix in it which creates new creations.