[The skill hand and the face: optic and haptic surgery]

For the surgeon of the face, there is an obvious ambiguity in the relationship between the hand and the face, because the first is etymologically linked to the grounds of the surgeon trade and which face does it mean? The face of the man, who, hidden behind his surgical mask, tries to repair the disfigured face or the face of the patient he cares about in the way to give him a new face and a new identity through even more complex surgeries? There is actually an analogy with the painter and his model, the sculptor and his hand which shapes, the pianist player and the works he performs, the writer and the memories which inspire his novel. The authors would like here to point out this facing of feelings but also theirs tangles in something which could be named the tactilisation of the seeing and visualisation of the touch; sort of requested community between optic and haptic. Applied to the facial transplantation this disturbing strangeness, the schizophrenic questioning dived ourselves in an abyssal vertigo from which only the ethics as aesthetics of the inside could save us.