"Because I am immersed, situated, in what I perceive, I cannot wholly control the field that "my" perception organizes around me. What I perceive has always a certain autonomy, a "generality," which escapes me. There is an "anonymity" to perception and to other sensory experiences, which means that they never are completely "mine." Rather, in the experience of sensation, I discover "a modality of general existence . . . which runs through me without my being its author" (PP, 216). ... In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty uses the term "the One" (l'On) to describe this anonymous, or prepersonal, embodiment that runs through my own embodied being and so decenters me. Strictly speaking, he tells us, "I ought to say that one perceives in me, and not that I perceive" (PP, 215). The perceiving self, he insists, "is not myself as an autonomous subject, but myself in so far as I have a body and am able to 'look'" (PP, 240)."