ENGD53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emmanuel Levinas, Monomania, Picaresque Novel
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]: used to refer to a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about; further, additional (oed) ]: philosophy & sociology: that which is distinct from, different from, or opposite to something or oneself (oed) Other [noun]: chiefly philosophy - usually the other" with capital initial (oed) That which is the counterpart or converse of something specified or implied. Specifically 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. Other [verb]: to become conscious of by viewing as a distinct entity (oed) (in later use) specifically to conceptualize (a people, a group, etc. ) as excluded and intrinsically different from oneself. An othered complex of individuals is quite different from othered individuals (p. weiss you, i &
