In order to maintain the paradigm of the power of dominance, it is crucial to define and thereby to confine the things that surround us. Naming becomes obsessive in times of insecurity. When a culture is under threat defence becomes necessary. In order to do that, the borders that define the culture have to be exacting so that the culture can distinguish what it sees itself to be from that which it does not see itself to be. Naming is a way of imposing clear borders onto otherwise fluid experience. Naming helps to make the unknown known, but the more borders that are generated, more things will fall into the penumbra between categories or squeezed into a category that is inadequate or inappropriate and all of the blurry edges are cut off.