Chiasm

Crossing-over: subjective experience, objective existence. We have the subjective experience of touching, the sense of touch, but also the awareness that something is touched; we sense, too, that the hand is an 'object' that touches, that is touched. The body is in this world and of it, both subject and object.

Existence and essence. An essence that is aware of its existence. Is this possible because we are created in the 'image' of God?

Through the criss-crossing within it of the touching and the tangible , its own movements incorporate themselves into the universe they interrogate, are recorded on the same map as it.

The touch is in the world, is 'object'. Something is distant and close. It has to be distant for us to sense it as a distinct 'thing' (and ourselves as Not-It); it has to be close or it would be nothing to us. A distance is bridged without being abolished: I am me, you are you; but also I am you , and you are me.

We must be in the world to see it. We enclose it, but in the same movement open up that space that differentiates. I-world. From one perspective they are distinct, from another they co-exist. We are between pure individuality and the idea. Me-you, Me, You.