#thematization

The very objectification of truth refers to language. The infinite, against which every definition stands out, is not defined, does not offer itself to gaze, but signals itself, not as theme but as thematizing, as him starting from whom everything can be fixed in its identity. But also he signals himself by attending the work that signals him; he does not only signal himself, but speaks, is a face. Teaching, the end of equivocation or confusion, is a thematization of phenomena. It is because phenomena have been taught to me by him who presents himself—by reviving the acts of this thematization which are the signs—by speaking—that henceforth I am not the plaything of mystification, but consider objects. The presence of the Other dispels the anarchic sorcery of the facts: the world becomes an object. To be an object, to be a theme, is to be what I can speak of with someone who has broken through the screen of phenomena and has associated me with himself.