OED Definition:
9. Chiefly Philos. Usu. with the. Freq. with capital initial. That which is the counterpart or converse of something specified or implied; (spec. in structuralist and post-structuralist critical and psychoanalytic thought) that which is not the self or subject; that which lies outside or is excluded from the group with which one identifies oneself; (in Lacanian thought) the unconscious, the symbolic order. Now usually opposed to self.
The Other, at least as I interpreted it, is your ideal self, the you that exists on a metaphysical plane. Language and speech, as symbols of the thing itself, lay in the Other. The Other is the phallus, the search for perfection within ourselves.
Humble Heather
10 years ago
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