Jean-Luc Nancy: L'Intrus

The Intruder (L'Intrus) enters by force, through surprise or ruse, in any case without the right and without having first been admitted.2There must be something of the intrusin the stranger; otherwise, the stranger would lose its strangeness: if he already has the right to enter and remain, if he is awaited and received without any part of him being unexpected or unwelcome, he is no longer the intrus, nor is he any longer the stranger. It is thus neither logically acceptable, nor ethically admissible, to exclude all intrusion in the coming of the stranger, the foreign.