From the gypsy, Amica, who seduces François, in Le torrent, to the black dancer Jean-Ephrem de la Tour, in Un habit de lumière, to Doctor Nelson who turns the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières upside down in Kamouraska and Stevens Brown accused of murder in Les fous de Bassans, the Other is a figure that haunts Anne Hébert's entire work. The objective of this article is initially to identify the various manifestations of otherness in order to identify its recurring forms, allowing us to examine the meaning of the omnipresent figure of the Other. Does the character as Other, from the pen of a Quebec author, bring to light the hidden, unacknowledged desires of an individual or a society? What is basically its symbolic power and its function of revelation?