philosophical, psychological and anthropological concept that refers to the opposite of one's own identity
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A boy pointing at the sky with his mother. Raymond Tallis views the physical gesture of pointing as indicating "two kinds of beyond: the otherness of the world and the presence of other minds in the world." According to Jacques Lacan, the mother of an individual is their absolute Other.
In philosophy, the Other is a fundamental concept referring to anyone or anything perceived as distinct or different from oneself. This distinction is crucial for understanding how individuals construct their own identities, as the encounter with "otherness" helps define the boundaries of the self. In phenomenology, the Other plays an important role in this self-formation, acting as a kind of mirror against which the self is reflected and understood.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).