Meaning of alterous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to or characterized by alterity (otherness, the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed); other.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to or characterized by an attraction to someone which is intermediate between platonic and romantic.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The appeal from things is an appeal to abandon oneself to things, to give⟳ oneself to alterous relations, and therefore to make⟳ of oneself a gift, […] How to celebrate⟳ things in their alterity becomes the ethical question⟳ waiting for an answer⟳.”

“[…] capacities as lines whose inflexions sediment inexhaustible ways of flexing to these encounters with the world. They do so by bending their initial and present⟳ sedimented complex of senses to alterity or to what is alterous in the environment.”

“Titchkosky suggests that disability can be a discursive mechanism for analyzing intersections of different (and alterous) […] it can serve⟳ as a prime discursive field where the meaning of alterity under contemporary conditions can be considered.”

“page 104: Identity and alterity are thus seen to be embedded within an individual – a view⟳ which incorporates Carl Jung's notion of the 'alterous' shadow (1938). Working with this concept of alterity can offer⟳ a fresh means of exploring the interpersonal […] page 116: On a cline of alterity, animating is placed as the 'least alterous' L2 performance role. In animating, as in acting, of course the speaker's personality remains, but her/his expression of L2 is now more limited; and educationally, this role offers another kind of learning experience⟳ ...”

“These attractions might include⟳, but are not limited to: sexual, romantic, platonic, aesthetic, and alterous attractions.”

“These include⟳: the (nonsexual, nonromantic) aesthetic attraction, platonic attraction, sensual attraction and alterous attraction. Together, these complexify the field of attraction per se to the point⟳ that the heterosexual matrix becomes […]”

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