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Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess

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The Panoptic Gaze in Lacan Theory

For the panoptic gaze to work as a concept you have to imagine it as an objective gaze, as not just object, but also like outside. And then pushing back against is the objectivity that a lot of times occasions, historicism. Again, outside of yourself, not in an objective space in an external space. I don't want I don't think the word split is appropriate here, but that's just an important concept to observe is to like, right. But but she that's where the title of the chapter comes from. The ortho psychic part. Yeah.

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