ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by describing the two separate and very different processes of Adam and Eve's creation. These two creations, he suggests, are two typologies of the human's experience of being; and when considered together, they form an existential dialectic between a need for mastery and a need to learn, between certainty and uncertainty, between a wish to cope and to order and a seeking the unknown, and between being innately social and essentially lonely.
The author portrays the story of creation as representing the human's search for dialogue between these inherently contradictory aspects of human existence and its expression in relationships. This crucial dialogue takes place on the Sabbath, a metaphorical day of rest or a Winnicottian transitional space, where the dialectics of our existence become alive. From this position, the concept True Other is drawn and defined. Our most basic need for and fear of love is then described.
