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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Pictura in Arcana: The Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack
Author : Lysane Fauvel
Published in: Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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“At the level of the gaze/’ Slavoj Zizek notes in The Plague of Fantasies, “the Real is not so much the invisible Beyond, eluding our gazes which can perceive only delusive appearances, but, rather,” he adds, “the very stain or spot which disturbs and blurs our “direct” perception of reality - which “bends” the direct straight line from our eyes to the perceived object” (214). Louis Martin notes in To Destroy Painting, “[But] how can I see a lack? We see only what is there. If I see what is not there,” she adds, “I must have been expecting to see something” (146).