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The Gaze of the Other - Magical Realist - Feb 15, 2026
Sartre defined the gaze of the other as the perspective on our bodies held by the looking of other people. In this act of objectification, our originary and wholly subjective "being for ourselves" is stolen and interrupted. We immediately become as we are seen by and performed for this outer gaze upon us. Lacan otoh posits the gaze of the other as part of our own being. It is we he says that project the gaze of the other all around us, as demonstrated in such states as narcissism and paranoia. We are experienced as selves precisely in the mode of the observed object of the other. We carry the essence of otherness as diametrical to selfness inside our very own consciousness..
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