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The [[gaze ]] entices, inspects, fascinates. The [[voice ]] hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are ''gaze'' and ''voice'' part of the [[relationship ]] we call [[love ]] . . . or [[hate]]? If so, what part? How do they function? This provocative book examines love as the mediating entity in the essential [[antagonism ]] between the [[sexes]], and ''gaze'' and ''voice'' as love’s medium. The contributors proceed from the [[Lacanian ]] premise that “there is no [[sexual ]] relationship,” that the sexes are in no way complementary and that love—figured in the gaze and the voice —embodies the promise and [[impossibility ]] of any relation between [[them]].

The first detailed Lacanian elaboration of this topic, ''Gaze and Voice as Love [[Objects]]'' examines the status of gaze, voice, and love in [[philosophy ]] from [[Plato ]] to [[Kant]], in [[ideology ]] from early [[Christianity ]] to contemporary [[cynicism]], in [[music ]] from Hildegard of Bingen to Richard [[Wagner]], in [[literature ]] from Edith Wharton’s ''Age of Innocence'' to Kazuo Ishiguro’s ''The Remains of the Day'', and in [[cinema ]] from Michael Powell’s ''Peeping Tom'' to Kieslowski’s ''A Short [[Film ]] on Love. Throughout'', the contributors seek to show that the [[conflict ]] between the sexes is the site of a larger battle over the destiny of [[modernity]]. With insights into the underlying target of racist and sexist [[violence]], this book offers surprising revelations into the [[nature ]] of an ancient enigma—love.

Approaching its topic with utter disregard for predominant multiculturalist and deconstructionist commonplaces, this volume will be indispensable for anyone interested in the uses of [[psychoanalysis ]] for philosophy, [[cultural ]] studies, and the [[analysis ]] of ideology.

|width="100%"| [[Salecl, Renata]] (Editor) and [[Slavoj Zizek]] (Editor). '''''[[Gaze And Voice As Love Objects]]'''''. Durham: Duke [[University ]] Press. Durham, December 1996, Hardcover, 255 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 0822318067. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822318067/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822318067/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822318067/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822318067/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822318067/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr]</small> or Duke University Press. December 1996, Paperback, 264 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 082231813X. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9619024435/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/9619024435/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/9619024435/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/9619024435/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/9619024435/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>