"A mutually affirming intersubjectivity (which I will discuss first) exists insofar as I and another are both situated in, perceive, and can communicate about the same "natural" and "social" world. Even then we cannot ever have the identical perception, since we are separate existences, each a body-subject with its own unique situation. Yet there can be sufficient overlap between our perceptions to create between us an "interworld," a "primordial communication." ... our first move is to believe in an undivided being between us."

"This other is not, for me, a negating or objectifying transcendence, but an equal who shares with me, through our common participation in embodiment and sensation, and through our common world and history, a common perceptual experience."