While for Lacan the anonymity of vision makes it alienating, for Merleau-Ponty the anonymity of vision makes relationships possible without subjects dominating their objects: “There is here no problem of the alter ego because it is not I who sees, not he who sees, because an anonymous visibility inhabits both of us, a vision in general, in virtue of that primordial property that belongs to the flesh, being here and now, of radiating everywhere and forever, being an individual, of being also a dimension and a uniis not inhuman. He argues against the “inhuman gaze” (1962, 361).