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      Worship as transformational object: Aesthetic experience and the "unthought known"

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          Meaning is formed where an evocative object and the unconscious meet. Such an object can be a thing, a person, a place, art, word, sound or atmosphere. This way of forming meaning does not depend on thinking. Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas calls it the unthought known. It is a form of knowing that is perceived through imagination -that capacity that mediates between thinking and sensing. The aim of the article is to explore worship as transformational object in discussion with Johan Cilliers' A space for grace: Towards an aesthetics of preaching. In a worship event a rich variety of elements can contribute to aesthetic experience: from space and architecture to art, colour form and symbols, to sound, music and singing, bodily participation, and the spoken word. The article explores how these can function as evocative objects that have the capacity to affect the psyche and transform the self.

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          Christopher Bollas

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                Journal
                stj
                Stellenbosch Theological Journal
                STJ
                Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust in association with Christelike Lektuurfonds (CLF) (Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa )
                2413-9459
                2413-9467
                2019
                : 5
                : 2
                : 139-154
                Affiliations
                [01] Pretoria orgnameUniversity of Pretoria South Africa Yolanda.Dreyer@ 123456up.ac.za
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                S2413-94672019000200009 S2413-9467(19)00500200009
                10.17570/stj.supp. 2019.v5n2.a08
                fd897fae-b14b-4754-a65b-e05a8b38f9c7

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                unthought known,transformational object,Worship,aesthetic experience

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