... but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and that of penetrating. It is the polarity of the earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness ... Luther's faith that the figure of the mother has been eliminated from the manifest picture,and replaced by that of the father; instead of the certainty of being loved by mother, intense doubt,hoping ... lived. The history of religion and philosophy is the history of these answers, of their diversity, as well as of theirlimitation in number. The answers depend, to some extent, on the degree of individuation...