La part de l’autre (review)

The theme of Jean-Michel Rey’s book is the servile dependence that can arise when one human being takes another as his or her absolute model. The book focuses on the rhetorical and—in the broadest sense—economic dimensions of imaginary identification and idealization. It examines the ways in which the figure of Authority arises out of persuasion understood as the process through which individuals extend credit to those to whom they thereby subject themselves.