The distinction between self and other-self is more fundamental for making a world than subject and object. The other here has at least the same freedom to act as I have and motives which are entirely opaque, since that is precisely what its otherness consists in. Its actions need not mirror mine in any way, its freedom is an assumption that I cannot help making in the face of its inscrutability. The essence here is uncontrol, complete frustration of the enterprise of rendering myself absolute; but if the other reveals itself in its directedness towards me the field of possibilities expands to embrace new ecstasies.