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The suicidal patient often has an unconscious fantasy of himself as a willing but passive victim
in a submissive dyadic relationship with 'Death'. Death, or Fate, serves as a screen for the original ambivalently loved lost object, the early parental imago. The fantasized 'passive' role of the suicide is compared with the creative individual's need to experience his work as 'inspired'—placed inside him by some magical figure.