Other

other oþer English en Etymology 1 en fr autre (en other). en fr Autre, principally after French psychoanalyst en Jacques Lacan (also as fr grand Autre) and philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Proper noun the Other s en philosophy psychoanalysis Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself. en 1992 w:Slavoj Žižek Enjoy Your Symptom! Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out 0415904811 56 https://archive.org/details/enjoyyoursymptom0000zize/page/56/mode/1up In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the Other, destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the Other’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the Other’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the Other exists” en 2006 w:Lisa Guenther The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction 9780791468470 123 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yw1rhJPaYaMC&pg=PA123 The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible. en 2015 Jonathan Corpus Ong The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines 9781783084067 17 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=38tRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 Critiquing the Western philosophical tradition of privileging the autonomy of the ‘I’, in which he uses Heidegger as exemplar, Levinas provocatively argues that the ‘I’ ultimately exists to be responsible for the Other – a responsibility based not on reciprocity (whether the Other behaves in accordance to expectations of the ‘I’) but on an asymmetrical and infinite kind of responsibility. Translations Sociological concept French: fr autrui, fr autre Korean: ko 타자(他者) Persian: fa دیگری digari See also en ingroups and outgroups tribalism us versus them Further reading Other (philosophy) Etymology 2 en Proper noun en. Etymology 3 From en non Othorere, originating during the Viking occupation of England. Proper noun s en male rare Old Norse, used as an aristocratic heritage familial given name. Anagrams en ehort threo- Toher heort- thero- throe hetro Rothe rothe