ABSTRACT
Language is magical for the listener in the sense that peoples attitudes, expressions, and words are manifested to the other and have an effect on him, even though transcendence, as the one who speaks, remains inaccessible. Language is a relation between separated and inseparable terms: the speaker and the listener. A world with language is a world where separated terms are inseparable: oneself and another, speaker and listener, irreducible to each other, and as such jointly constituting speech as what occurs between them. The caress is the language of desire, strictly speaking, in the sense that the caress occurs between separated terms which are thus made inseparable from each other. In this sense, the body is structured like a language. A world without desire would be a world where separated terms, oneself and another, remain separated. Sartre untiringly describes such a world.
