The distinction between the “self” and the “other” has always been created through a “body” and its apparently differentiating peculiarities. The body, notwithstanding the fact that it carries such differentiations, can at the same time tie the “self” to the “other”. Because of the perception we possess on the environment within which we live, and precisely due to the ties between such surroundings and the “body”, the ruptures between the two can increase or even decrease, while at the same time connections or ties between them can deepen or loosen. Therefore, from this perspective, what has actively played a role in the actualization of hierarchies between the human-being and its surrounding environment would not simply become an ineffective entity in making distinctions between the “self” and the “other”. Encountering this cycle of “othering”, hence, is based on knowing the “self” and the “other”. As the closest entity to “us”, the body would therefore play a “mediating role” in such transformations.
