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| The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering)
is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same.
It refers, or attempts to refer to, that which is other than the
concept being considered. Often it means a person other than
oneself. It is often capitalised. Origin of the Word: Otherness
is an ambiguous term that originated in the writings of GWF
Hegel (1770-1831) and was later developed in the psychoanalysis
of Lacan. The other can be associated with the image outside
oneself perceived and identified within the Mirror-stage
[psychoanalytic term: roughly, when a baby sees itself in the
mirror and gains an idea of itself as discontinuous from the
rest of the world – MU]. It can be understood within the binary
of self/other and can be seen as organizing the very existence
of individual subjects. While Otherness is something that we all
experience in a psychol