For example, when some of the last philosophers—like Maurice Merleau-Ponty or Michel Henry—approach the domain of sensuous relationships, they basically confine themselves to a subject-object logical structure, without considering what occurs between two subjects. And when such a relationship is envisioned it is more often than not according to a master-slave, dominant-dominated scheme which aims at nullifying at least one of the two subjectivities.

— Sharing the Fire by Luce Irigaray (Page 56)