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"A marvelous collection of essays written by some of the most prominent figures working today from within a Lacanian paradigm. Though centered on the objects of the voice and the gaze and their status within the experience and structure of love, these essays range over an amazing topography of issues, from penitentiary fantasy and utilitarianism, to film theory and false memory syndrome."--John Mowitt, University of Minnesota
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Gaze, Voice
1. The Object Voice / Mladen Dolar 7
2. Philosophers' Blind Man's Buff / Alenka Zupancic 32
3. Killing Gazes, Killing in the Gaze: On Michael Powell's
Peeping Tom / Elisabeth Bronfen 59
4. "I Hear You with My Eyes"; or, The Invisible Master / Slavoj Zizek 90
Part II. Love Objects
5. At First Sight / Mladen Dolar 129
6. On the Sexual Production of Western Subjectivity, or, Saint Augustine as a Social Democrat / Fredric Jameson 154
7. I Can't Love You Unless I Give You Up / Renata Salecl 179
8. "There Is No Sexual Relationship" / Slavoj Zizek 208
Notes on Contributors 251
Index 253
About the author
Renata Salecl is Researcher at the Institute for Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Spoils of Freedom and Sexuation (published by Duke University Press).
Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His latest books include Tarrying with the Negative (Duke University Press) and The Indivisible Remainder.
Summary
The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotises, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love ...or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love's medium.
