ABSTRACT
The various studies which vary the concepts of fault in time and space seem to indicate the emergence of a “conceptual knot” or “family resemblance.” The “concept of fault,” caught in the nets of language, would necessarily fail to encounter “the fault itself” and to experience its own meaning. Legal meaning would mask the grammatical structure as well as the normative choices that are made on these bases. A phenomenological analysis offers the interest of avoiding the relativism peculiar to the psychological approach and of responding to the impossibility of communicating meaning within the framework of an intersubjective relationship. The chapter examines how to move from the meaning of the fault to the examination of its meaning. The meaning of the fault will thus be, at each new occurrence, negotiated and rethought from its categorical horizon. In this way, the meaning of the fault always carries an implicit halo of the unthought.
