The article examines two types of depersonalization in modern society and their connection with the problem of relationships. The tendency of self-removal or “face erasure” is shown through the prism of the concept of trace in modern French philosophy and the transformation of the representation of one’s own face in modern culture. The tendency of depersonalization of the other is presented in the light of the features of modern society as an illusory communicative society or, in the terminology of J. Baudrillard, the no-answer society. From the point of view of the two presented trends, the state of the modern culture of relations in the educational sphere is analyzed and a conclusion is made about the general trend of (de)personification and the need to return to understanding the relationship as a specifically human category associated with the concepts of person, connection and communication.