Abstract
This study aims to understand the Reflexive Encounter proposed by Szymanski (2002) with male parents as a space of encounter that provides an opening to the constitutive otherness of the self. The question of otherness will be used as an ontological condition in the constitution of the self in the thematic of Heidegger's (1988) and Ricoeur's (1991) existential phenomenology. In this conte…