The university seminar is itself a battlefield. Arguments are mounted and countered. Opponents defend positions. Inferences are thrown up against conjectures as correspondences are scouted out and investigated. The name promises nurture and growth, but our practice delivers polarization through conflict as the ground from which understanding springs.
Religious symbols embody transcendent reality.
Things are thrown together. The combination is pregnant with meaning. New insights are born. Since Rudolph Otto's Idea of the Holy , the term has been used to signify the presence of that which is beyond the natural order, the metaphysical presence that inspires fear and fascination. The Other cannot be signified directly since it does not belong to the natural order.