cynical ¹ behavior of a living being we find also in man — through abstraction, to be sure, since thought has already transfigured life in concrete man. It figures as the relation one has with nourishment, in the very general sense that every enjoyment enjoys something, a "something" whose independence has been taken away. The being that is assumed by a living being, the assimilable — are nutriments.²" /> The ego and the totality - Levinas Emmanuel | sdvig press