Nancy is known and renown as a philosopher who deals with a series of different phenomena, but if there is a fil rouge in his work, from the very first writings to the more recent works, it is precisely the issue of touch. ...the contribution focuses on the concept of touch as developed by Nancy from Corpus to Noli me tangere, namely, from the novel conception of body to the attempt of grasping the elusive object of touch via various philosophical, linguistic, and artistic reflections. The founding fathers of structuralism are: first and foremost the linguists that followed Ferdinand de Saussure in his endeavor of founding linguistics as a science of language, from Jakobson, Benveniste, Barthes, to Derrida; then LéviStrauss with his new approach in anthropology based on linguistics; after him, a new reading of Marx captained by Althusser and a new reading of Freud lead by Lacan; furthermore, a new view on history, knowledge, and power by Foucault; a new philosophy by Deleuze; new literary theories, etc. ...his own personal and professional "experience of freedom" came to a stop due to serious medical issues-a heart transplant and a cancer diagnosis- that prevented him from teaching, but not from thinking, since many, if not all of his most known writings are dated from this last period, including ĽIntrus (The Intruder), a personal and philosophical reflection on his own experience of heart transplant published in 2000 (cf. ...Hegel's concept of Aufhebung as the "speculative remark" that marks the crucial center of his philosophical system, understood as a mastodontic self-development of spirit in nature, art, religion, and philosophy, where each phase abolishes the previous one by incorporating it in its own logic, until we reach the absolute spirit, which in turn incorporates all the previous stages, their concepts, and contradictions-except for one, namely the concept and contradiction of Aufhebung, as if everything can well be dialectically aufgehoben, but the dialectics of Aufhebung itself: "aufheben does not capture itself, it does not close in itself and thus avoids its own identification; aufheben insists, persists, moves beyond itself, goes out of itself, slides through the text, untouched, so to speak, not preserved nor eliminated."