ABSTRACT
If, in order to admit the place of the other, we have to feel ourselves endangered, then we must have a very fragile sense of ourselves. To deny the past is to deny yourself, no matter how little you think you were a part of that past. To deny the past is actually to prepare the way for your own replacement because, after all, if you think you replaced somebody, then somebody will quite clearly replace you—and it won’t be at the time of your choosing.
