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The Look of Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Kelly Oliver
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Abstract

I begin to suggest an alternative to the notion of vision based in alienation and hostility put forth by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan. I diagnose this alienating vision as a result of a particular alienating notion of space presupposed by their theories. I develop lrigaray's comments about light and air to suggest an alternative notion of space that opens up the possibility that vision connects us to others rather than alienates us from them.

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Hypatia , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001, pp. 56 - 78
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Copyright © 2001 by Hypatia, Inc.

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