Taming and domesticating the mysterious, unsettling foreignness of the 'Other' person

 By speaking of the ego itself as an “other,” Lacan further underscores its alien and alienating status 

 Additionally, when relating to others as alter-egos, one does so on the basis of what one “imagines” about them (often imagining them to be “like me,” to share a set of lowest-common-denominator thoughts, feelings, and inclinations making them comprehensible to me). 

These transference-style imaginings are fictions taming and domesticating the mysterious, unsettling foreignness of one’s OTHERS, thereby rendering social life tolerable and navigable.