Abstract

Nature itself includes a part of invisibility, its most important part, the one which is concerned with its original determination—its genotype—and the sap as existence, growth and relationality determining factor. Invisibility is not a matter of ideality, as Merleau-Ponty maintains. The dynamism through which nature ensures ‘intra-structures and intersections’ is invisible (cf. La Nature, p. 291; Nature, p. 228). This dynamism is also operating in intersubjectivity, when this is not more or less arbitrarily constructed. It permits the link between bodies and the actualization of their potential, notably thanks to desire, especially a sexuate desire. The inter-bodies relation of intersubjectivity, to which Merleau-Ponty alludes, seems to be the result of an artificial elaboration, of a coding extraneous to life itself. Its invisibility is not a real one; it bears witness to a lack of connection between the real and the coding.