The core of the individual is a virtual self, virtual because it never directly comes to presence but is known as the place of willing, feeling, and thinking, both directly and in memory and anticipation, the place from which and to which these continually refer. In every one of these cases there is a disturbing reversibility at play. If you can will, can know yourself in the acting of will, you can also be the object of another will, can be willed, subject to the power of another so that the originating position is precisely not-you. In the same way as you can be the one who feels you can also be the one who is felt, can be subsumed in the other's feeling, and as you think and know, so you can be thought and known. These dualities are the spice of life, but they can also be highly unnerving and uncanny. They are why the individual subject is always a work in progress whose outcome remains essentially uncertain.