We would have to examine patiently what emerges in language when the Greek conception of heteron seems to run out of breath when faced by the alterhuic; what happens when the heteron seems to become incapable of mastering what it alone, however, is able to precomprehend by concealing it as alterity (other in general), and which, in return, will reveal to heteron its irreducible center of meaning (the other as other autrui.