Introduction: the voice of someone ---

Lacan and the alienation of language: the vel of alienation ---

The beyond in this life ---

Repetition and innovation ---

The intellectual and the other ---

Barthes and the pleasures of alienation: the duplicities of critical play ---

'The intellectual writer that I am' ---

Mythologies of otherness ---

Foucault and the archeology of alienation: instruments for a history of the present ---

Alienation, social exclusion and mental integration ---

The divided subject and the death of man ---

The specific, positive intellectual ---

Derrida and the wholly other: reconstructing the text ---

Deconstruction: game, rule, repetition, writing ---

Conclusion: recontextualisations.