This paper investigates the constitutive movement of the types of relationships subjectivity maintains with the strange and the other. It first highlights the constitution of a relationship of identity and exclusion that dates back to the origins of philosophy with Plato's theory, in which the strange is located in the body and in painful detachment from drives and affects, through the separation of body and soul. Then, based on Hegel's perspective, it considers subjectivity as self-consciousness and its relationship with the strange or alterity in search of recognition. Another possibility emerges from Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, which dialogue does not relate to Plato's or Hegel's dialectics but to a movement out of oneself, "thinking with the other and returning to oneself as other". It also aims to show the possibilities and ambivalence of our comprehension of the other.
The other; The strange; Subjectivity; Philosophical hermeneutics