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psychoanalytic or religious concepts, such as guilt. 508 In their interviews, as well as their
numerous publications AN, Benjamin, Black, Bobrow, Rubin, Grotstein and Jones all
revealed a bi-lingual ability to translate psychoanalytic, religious, spiritual and philosophical
terms. 509
Bomford, drawing on Matte-Blanco and the language and traditions of Christian theology
concludes they are engaged in the same search for the Other.
The search for the Centre, the Unconscious, God, the One … is the search for
ultimate meaning, beauty, justice, forgiveness, peace. The desire that implies it is
surely universal … God is called the soul of our souls, the spirit within our spirits,
and Freud was one of the great explorers of the soul (Bomford 1999: 149).
Yet Bomford does not limit himself to a hermeneutic of translation, this is merely a start and
later focuses on how one engages in transition from one state of being to another, ultimately
leading to a transformation, though Bomford has in mind the transformation of the Church
and Christian tradition in order to engage with the needs of people today. To fully account
for the hermeneutic tasks involved in understanding sacred psychoanalysis, I evolved an
interpretative framework, detailed in the following chapter.
508 All references are found in McDougall's interview with Molino (Molino 1997: 79f.).
509 A list of their works can be found in the reference list.
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