ABSTRACT
Bion's concept of O opened psychoanalytic thought to the exploration of spiritual knowledge, the aim of this discussion is not to bring religion to psychoanalysis. Rather, it is to clarify that psychoanalysis, as a science of the mind, is a science of spiritual proportions, and that this perspective is an essential part of analytic work. The traditions of gnosticism are reflected in the metaphysical perspective of O. The word "gnostic" is based on the Greek "gnosis", meaning knowledge, or cognition, and the Christian Gnostics, like the Sufis, was a mystical sect whose religious perspective was based on knowledge rather than superstition. While each person can bring either a concrete Fundamentalist or symbolic metaphorical understanding to what is found in the New Testament, the Christian orthodoxy clearly refuted the "heretical" views of the Gnostics, whom they called atheists.
