" The specular thing-image, or thing-'mental image' chiasm: imagination inherent to each subfield of this sense. The imaginary deploys itself in this field—which is therefore carnal.
The imaginary: decentering of the sensible.
The concept: decentering of the imaginary.
Me-world Chiasm: the things gaze upon me. I gaze upon myself (through the eyes of the things).
The chiasm is the idea of Being as the elevation of the relative to the Absolute by means of the diaphragm and the 'there is. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Merleau-Ponty Reader