Gaze

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Lacan's first omments on the gaze appear in the first year of his seminar, in reference to Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological analysis of "the look."[1]

For Sartre, the gaze is that which permits the subject to realize that the Other is also a subject.

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  1. The fact that the English translators of Sartre and Lacan have used different terms obscures the fact that both use the same term in French - le regard.

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