The coming of the absolute other sees the subject without ever being seeable

Evidence

What would hence ‘come to me’ would fall upon me or would look at me and would see me come, perhaps, from this scene without symmetry nor synchrony, without ever giving or offering me the possibility of seeing it come or of exchanging with it a glance, without ever giving or offering me the possibility of waiting for it or of preceding it – not even, at the very moment where I no longer seek to precede it, would even allow me to be affected by a surprise which would still come before me, etc. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 121

Categorization

• DEFINE: Inverts the receptive ‘seeing-coming’ relation: the awaited can look at and see the one waiting, an asymmetry that no waiting or anticipation can recover.