Gaze and voice as love objects / Renata Salecl and Slavoj Žižek, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salecl, Renata, 1962-

Žižek, Slavoj.

Series:

SIC (Durham, N.C.) ; 1.

SIC ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Gaze in literature.

Voice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love ... or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential antagonism between the sexes, and gaze and voice as love's medium. The contributors proceed from the Lacanian premise that "there is no sexual relationship," that the sexes are in no way complementary, and that love - figured in the gaze and the voice - embodies the promise and impossibility of any relation between them.

The first detailed Lacanian elaboration of this topic, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects examines the status of gaze, voice, and love in philosophy from Plato to Kant, in ideology from early Christianity to contemporary cynicism, in music from Hildegard of Bingen to Richard Wagner, in literature from Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, and in cinema from Michael Powell's Peeping Tom to Kieslowski's A Short Film on Love. Throughout, the contributors seek to show that the conflict between the sexes is the site of a larger battle over the destiny of modernity. Approaching its topic with utter disregard for predominant multiculturalist and deconstructionist commonplaces, and with insights into the underlying target of racist and sexist violence, this book offers surprising revelations into the nature of an ancient enigma - love.

Contents:

The object voice / Mladen Dolar

Philosopher's blind man's buff [sic] / Alenka Zupančič

Killing gazes, killing in the gaze : on Michael Powell's Peeping Tom / Elisabeth Bronfen

"I hear you with my eyes," or, The invisible master / Slavoj Žižek

At first sight / Mladen Dolar

On the sexual production of Western subjectivity, or, Saint Augustine as a social democrat / Fredric Jameson

I can't love you unless I give you up / Renata Salecl

"There is no sexual relationship" / Slavoy Žižek.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822379447

0822379449

OCLC:

1144917623