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==English==

===Etymology 1===
{{sl|en|fr|Autre}}, principally after French psychoanalyst {{w|Jacques Lacan}} (also as {{m|fr|grand Autre}}) and philosopher {{w|Emmanuel Levinas}}.

====Proper noun====
{{en-proper noun|head=the [[other|Other]]|Others}}

# {{lb|en|philosophy|psychoanalysis}} [[radical|Radical]] [[alterity]] or [[otherness]] conceived or [[reify|reified]] as a separate [[entity]]; “other people” altogether in their difference from [[oneself]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=w:Slavoj Žižek|title={{w|Enjoy Your Symptom!|Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out}}|isbn=0415904811|page=56|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/enjoyyoursymptom0000zize/page/56/mode/1up|text=In its most fundamental dimension, sacrifice is a “gift of reconciliation” to the '''Other''', destined to appease its desire. Sacrifice conceals the abyss of the '''Other'''’s desire, more precisely: it conceals the '''Other'''’s lack, inconsistency, “inexistence,” that transpires in this desire. ''Sacrifice is a guarantee that “the '''Other''' exists”'' {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=w:Lisa Guenther|title=The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction|isbn=9780791468470|page=123|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yw1rhJPaYaMC&pg=PA123|text=The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the '''Other''' in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Jonathan Corpus Ong|title=The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines|isbn=9781783084067|page=17|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=38tRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|text=Critiquing the Western philosophical tradition of privileging the autonomy of the ‘I’, in which he uses Heidegger as exemplar, Levinas provocatively argues that the ‘I’ ultimately exists to be responsible for the '''Other''' – a responsibility based not on reciprocity (whether the '''Other''' behaves in accordance to expectations of the ‘I’) but on an asymmetrical and infinite kind of responsibility.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|Sociological concept}}
* French: {{t+|fr|autrui}}, {{t+|fr|autre}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|타자(他者)}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|دیگری|tr=digari}}
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===Etymology 2===
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