ABSTRACT
This chapter examines insecurity and otherness against the spirit of present conditions and organizing them around the motive of emancipation may be seen as a risky anachronism. It exposes the unique ties between insecurity and otherness in each emancipation process. In a socio-political context, the chapter defines each experience in terms of political economy, and it is interesting to go back to a cultural act that places finding one's voice at the heart of the individual and collective experience, that is emancipation. The principle of emancipation as Pierre Simon Ballanche intends it is that after a passage towards the symbolic, and subsequently on to a relationship with the other. In his theory of emancipating cycles, the working class of the nineteenth century reactivated the plebeian struggle bringing it up to date with conflicts between emancipating forces and conservative forces.
