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The paper offers an outline of M. Merleau-Ponty's thought as represented in his earlier works 'The Structure of Behavior' and 'Phenomenology of Perception'. In them Merleau-Ponty, contrary to the conception of the subject as an 'apprehending no-thingness', tries to establish a mutual relationship between person and meaning, person and the other person, a sort of a merging embracement.