The idea of the fatal woman possesses you totally. What, ultimately, this image, fascinating image of the fatal woman stands for is death. … The ultimate abyss is not a physical abyss, but the abyss of the depth of another person. … when you see … into his or her eyes, you see the abyss. That’s the true spiral which is drawing us in.

Slavoj Zizek on the eyes as “windows to the soul,” pervert’s guide to cinema (via sinthematica) http://ift.tt/2bCvACV