As the event opens the subject object duality is transformed and finally dissolved. On the way to this the object becomes other subject. So now it is clear that just as subject does not dissolve into object, object does not dissolve into subject. If you want to talk of the ultimate self, then this is just as much ultimate other; this is not a simple alternative but an essential structure of the opened event. Alterity is never melted into sameness, rather sameness is a special pathology of what is both and neither.