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AT Field

Ramiel's AT Field.

AT Field is short for "Absolute Terror Field." While in the series the characters always refer to it as "AT Field," the opening credits show the complete expression. It has also been shown once in Death and Rebirth during the flashbacks, and in various documents like the Red Cross Book.

At the beginning of the series, the AT field is shown as a barrier that the Angels can erect, which is impervious to almost all conventional weapons. The N² Mine can penetrate the AT Fields of some Angels, causing moderate damage that can be regenerated in a matter of hours or days, depending on the Angel in question. Certain Angels are completely unaffected by N² mines. An AT field can be penetrated by another AT field, such as those generated by the Evas. Toward the climax of the series, it is revealed that every being has an AT field, and that it is the literal wall that separates one's identity from other egos and external reality and which supports one having an existent separate from others. It is, then, the cause of loneliness and pain, and can be related to the so-called "Hedgehog's dilemma" exhibited by main character Shinji Ikari — the fact that some people feel pain from loneliness but also get hurt when approached, and the closer they are to others, the more they are hurt.

At the climax of The End of Evangelion, after the Third Impact, the re-awakened Lilith produces a massive Anti-AT field that neutralizes the AT fields of all human beings, thus returning them to an undifferentiated state — the Sea of LCL, a primordial soup of sorts.

The AT field is a very existential angst concept. It also bears resemblance to the "morphogenetic field" of Rupert Sheldrake.

Kaworu states that the AT field is "light of the soul", the wall that surrounds a person's soul.^[1] It would theoretically follow that all humans (and likely most animal organisms) have AT Fields of some sort.

围绕在人的内心中的“心灵之光”，AT Field，是与存在非常相关的恐怖概念。所有生物最终都被认识到有AT Field，或多或少。AT Field是每个人心里的一堵墙，表明人和人之间是绝对分开的，这也是寂寞和痛苦的原因。

人与人的交往可以比喻为“刺猬的困境”，人们虽然感觉到寂寞和痛苦，但是想靠近的时候又不可避免的伤害到他人，只因AT Field的存在。

我认为，Neon Genesis Evangelion里说的都是有根据的。