Any theory of others, that is of the plurality of apparently individual subjects, such as 'dissociated alters', is either a restatement of some obvious phenomena in a quasi-technical jargon or else a begging of the question unless it also offers a key to the existence of persons (and not merely 'other minds') and understanding the relations between them. At a minimum the difference between sexual polarity and the many forms of eros that constitute the attractions and repulsions, the glue, of humans relations. Individuals do not arise singularly but in complex pre-existing groupings without clear boundaries. All the phenomena of 'mind' occur as much between relational nodes as within what appears as consciousness.