The idea of the gaze is credited to the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan as developed in his Seminar XI, Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychoanalyse (The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis), held in Paris in 1964 and published as a book in 1973. Prioritized as one of the four fundamental concepts (the other three being repetition, transference and the drive, and the field of the Other), Lacan developed the concept of the gaze ...

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