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• O
• Contemplative position
• Transformational object
• Nirvana
• Incarnation
• Numinous
• Being
• Enlightened or awakened being
• Khora/chora
• Pranja
They form part of an inexhaustible list drawing on even wider religious, spiritual and
psychoanalytic cultures and language forms. This language gives expression to the central
concern of contemporary psychoanalytic, religious and spiritual engagement, which were
the nature of the unconscious, (paradoxically accessible and inaccessible), expressed in
Bionian terms as O or Other. This requires the acceptance of psychoanalysis as a unique
and evolving constellation of techniques and theories that accesses the internal world of
another human being, through familiarity with one’s own personal being, in a defined or
boundaried relationship. The result is a new form of knowing and not-knowing, a sense of
otherness, that is as revelatory and elusive as the ontological, spiritual and mystical
dimensions of human personhood. Yet each person also has an external world, shaped by
religious, social, cultural, and philosophical traditions and ideologies, where they exist in
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