speaking of torture

The . . . painful scream resulting from a blow, wound, or an accident indicates immediately not something buy rather somebody. One who hears the cry of pain is astonished because the scream interrupts the commonplace and integrated world. The sound, the noise, produces a mental image of an absent-present sombody in pain. The hearer does not know as yet what kind of pain it is, nor the reason for the outcry. But the hearer will be distrubed until he knows who is crying out and why. What that cry says is secondary; the fundamental issue is the cry itself; one who is somebody is saying something. It is not what is said buy rather the saying itself, the person who cries out, who is important.

- Enrique Dussel