ABSTRACT
There is a sadness in coming to the end of anything in life. Man’s instinct clings to the Life that will never end.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, 1898
INTRODUCTION
We like to think that a permanency exists in our lives, we will remain, our parents will, and our homes will stay the same. However, perhaps the only permanent aspect in our lives is the inevitability of change, beginning from the moment of conception, and advancing as the embryo becomes a fetus. Birth abruptly expels the child from the womb into its first encounter with mother, who now experiences holding a real child who for so long had been part of her body. Otto Rank saw this expulsion from the womb as the birth trauma, the root of all separation anxiety.
