| In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity. |
| The term infrahuman has been advanced in a way, to describe those bodies marked by race, whose alterity condemns them to worthlessness. |
| I also wonder whether there is a term in psychoanalytic theory for this perception of our body's radical alterity. |
| The narrative view of selfhood has, a further purpose to connect ipseity with alterity. |
| In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar. |
| The concluding chapter draws together the diverse strands of alterity explored to that point while examining alterity in history. |
