摘要:The question I would like to explore here is: What could the figure of the "Stranger " mean in the contemporary debate on subjectivity, humanism, and its ra dicalizations in the forms of post-humanism, trans-humanism, non-humanism and other "huma nisms with a prefix". The anachronistic and metaphorical idea of the "Stranger" from the pre-structuralist period has been replaced by concepts of Subjectivity – indebted to the Lacanian theoretical legacy of the "barred Subject" – which share one fundamental presupposition: subjectivization is always already self-estrangement, implying that the wholeness of the true Self is an impossibility