...here, on the highest peak of the human elevation of consciousness and its creative expression, we run upon the same basic conflict of will and compulsion which goes through the whole development of man and the process of becoming conscious. In the creative individual this conflict is manifest only at times, and we can best describe it thus, that nature becomes even more conscious of herself in a man who at the same time with the increasing knowledge of himself which we designate as individualization, tries always to free himself further from the primitive. It has to do, therefore, with a conflictual separation of the individual from the mass, undertaken and continued at every step of development into the new, and this I should like to designate as the never completed birth of individuality. For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work. In this sense, the contrast of will and consciousness as we have recognized it as the psychological problem par excellence, somehow corresponds to the biological contrast of procreation and birth. At all events we find in all these phenomena, even at the highest spiritual peak, the struggle and pain of birth, the separation out of the universal, with the pleasure and bliss of procreation, the creation of an own individual cosmos, whether it be now physically our own child, creatively our own work or spiritually our own self. At bottom it is and remains our own act of will, which we oppose to the outer force of reality as the inner pressure after truth.