
ZIZ006 The Spectator’s Malevolent Neutrality (08.06.2004)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Phantasmatic Gaze
I think that our primordial position is I'm doing it for the gaze which is why for La Colle the psychoanalytic notion of fantasy is not so much the scene itself which you fantasize. We are even more afraid of not being observed at all that's the ultimate horror and this explains the failure of a film in its very boring low commercial trash totally boring nature an interesting film. The most elementary phantasmatic scene is not that of a fascinating scene to be looked at some pornographic scene whatever you want but the notion that there is someone out there looking at us.
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