dissymmetry

asymmetry

In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.

The dissymetry between the criminal act and the torturous punishment reflected the gross imbalance of power between the subject and the sovereign.

chirality