this ‘making oneself seen’ that characterizes the circularity, the constitutive loop, of the drive, is in no way to be confused with the narcissistic ‘looking at oneself through the other’, that is, through the eyes of the big Other, from the point of the Ego-Ideal in the Other, in the form in which I appear to myself worthy of love: what is lost when I Took at myself through the other’ is the radical heterogeneity of the object qua gaze to whom I expose myself in ‘making oneself seen’.

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