This article proposes to reread the Problems in General Linguistics and the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions of Émile Benveniste to explore the question of hospitality today: a quest for the “you” of the foreign person to appropriate the “I”, questioning the intrinsic reversibility of the “I” and “you” dialogue. A journey between hostis, the foreign enemy, and hospes, the foreign host, or rather hospité, to use the neologism coined by Benveniste.
