The strange concept of 'psychological alienation', which is thought to have its roots in psychopathology, however enriched with ambiguities from otherdomains of reflexion, is little more than the anthropological confusion of these two different experiences of alienation, the first of which concerns those who have fallen under the power of the Other, and are chained to his liberty; while the second is the individual turned Other, excluded from the fraternal resemblance between men.