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Is not this lack of representation even more disturbing because one of the basic functions of the mediaeval occult is to present a realistic image of the life of the Other? If the Other is not a totalization but is rather a plurality (the point at which the theory of the self-referential Legion of Decentration comes into conflict with the universal Ontological Meaning of the Other), then it is even more traumatic to know that I cannot even begin to describe the Other that effectively is me, the Other as I see it. The anguished voice, the traumatic encounter, renders the Other incomprehensible. There is thus a need for a universal (and not so universal) definition of the Other that would be not only a way of life but also be neither a fetishistic escape but a necessary reality. This universal Other is thus the Other at its purest, the pure entity with no loss of self.