ABSTRACT
Non-independence manifests itself when two people have a third factor in common. If the author go to the same market and check out with the same checker over a period of time, then it is not simply that reader meet over time, but that they have the market and its environment in common. Readers have a market kind of non-independence. They are joined by the commonality of that particular market and by market dynamics in general. But there are also more specific ways in which non-independence is evident. Therapists doing couples work are working with non-independent people who usually have in common living in the same house, sharing the economics of joint finances, and sleeping in the same bed while contributing to the intimacies of a mutual sex life. Non-independence involves commonalities in contacting. Alterity is a celebration of difference. Further, alterity requires an ontological other, an actual other person. Without the ontical field, there is no alterity.
