The emerAgency

When a subject is confronted with an enigmatic, impenetrable Other, the thing he has to grasp is that his question to the Other is already the question of the Other itself--the hindrance which is preventing the subject from penetrating the heart of the Other, is an index of the fact that this Other is already in itself hindered, structured around a certain indigestible ROCK, resisting symbolization, symbolic integration (Zizek)