The hyperborean subject inhabits the universe of facts without assimilating itself, like the hypochondriac subject, to the order of facts. The world of facts is the world of objective unfreedom, the world of determinants, laws, definitions. It is the world that has already been decided, the universe of recognized, official and instituted factual truths — reality. The hyperborean subject is the subject of a certain denial of reality. It withdraws from the imperatives of the idealism of facts in order to open itself to another world, another order than (established) reality. The Hyperboreans inhabit the borders of reality, the edge of the earth in order to make contact with the real of reality, its impossibility and inherent incommensurability, chaos itself. They are contact subjects of this touching of the untouchable, the absolute limit of any conceivable reality.