in…modern anti-feminism, woman presents herself to man, endeavouring to fascinate his gaze and thus to drag him down from the spiritual heights into the pit of sexual debauchery -

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A Greek statue is the perfect human form, the balance of body and spirit – however, as such, it has to be without gaze: Their eyes are flat, pure surfaces, not the punctual window into the depth of the soul, since such a crack in the bodily surface would disturb its unity

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This, for Lacan, is beauty – the domesticated ugliness of the gaze. The painter gives something for the eye to feed on, but he invites the person to whom this picture is presented to lay down his gaze there as one lays down one’s weapons.

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the painting we are looking at “returns the gaze.” Insofar as this gaze, the blind spot of the painting, is an ugly “phallic” protuberance, an excess that disturbs the painting’s harmony, a work of art has to obfuscate this stain..if it is to become beautiful.

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it is, of course, well known that Kafka is a ‘writer of absence’, describing a world that remains religious in its structure but in which the central place belonging to God is empty; … this Absence itself conceals an inert, nightmarish presence ..of an obscene Superegoic object

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When it.. arrives at what it was striving for –… emancipation from the sacred, from social utility,… – the prize becomes worthless; the emancipation of art turns into the emancipation from art… –is.. not.. modern art effectively.. caught..in.. permanent.. self-questioning

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The very form of sitcoms seems to evoke the Hegelian “spurious infinity”: There are no big issues, just melodramatic complications that pop up and disappear

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