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The Gaze

The Gaze. Lacan. Jacques Lacan Anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The subject loses a degree of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object.

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The Gaze

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  1. The Gaze

  2. Lacan • Jacques Lacan • Anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. • The subject loses a degree of autonomy upon realizing that he or she is a visible object. • People modify their behaviour under the belief that they are constantly being watched even if they cannot directly see who or what is watching them. 

  3. Laura Mulvey • Second-Wave Feminism • The Male Gaze • The male gaze may be seen by a feminist either as a manifestation of unequal power between gazer and gazed, or as a conscious or subconscious attempt to develop that inequality.

  4. Male Gaze • A woman who welcomes an objectifying gaze may be simply conforming to norms established to benefit men, thereby reinforcing the power of the gaze to reduce a recipient to an object. Welcoming such objectification may be viewed as akin to exhibitionism.

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