Delia Popa, “L’autre en moi. Des frontières aux lacunes (qui ne sont pas les mêmes)”, Symposium, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2025.
This paper questions the philosophical and the political imaginary that tends to situate the alterity of the other on the other side of a frontier, be it visible or invisible, real or imaginary. In support of the hypothesis of another that is not to be found in the vaguely distant horizon, the Husserlian concepts of association, pairing, and imaginary transposition are first considered in order to give an account of a troubling proximity of the other. This framework is complexified next with the help of psychoanalytic reflections on the status of unconscious phantasms in their relationship to history. The paper ends by opening a liminary space made of lacunae that allows us to encounter each other and to make sense of these encounters.