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 Jacques Lacan theory of lack is concept that always relates to desire. lack being the thing that drives our desires.  L acan first designated a lack of  being : what is desired is being itself. "Desire is a relation to being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It is not the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being exists" (Seminar:  The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis ). In "The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power" ( Écrits ) Lacan argues that desire is the  metonymy  of the lack of being ( manque à être ): the  subject' s lack of being is at the heart of the analytic experience and the very field in which the  neurotic 's passion is deployed. In "Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Feminine Sexuality" Lacan contrasts the lack of being related to desire with the lack of having ( manque à avoir ) which he relates to  demand. an example of lack within a ...

  Is Mulvey's Perspective On Cinematic Pleasure Still Relevant In Morden Cinema?  Within the world of creative arts, in this case, cinema, Laura Mulvey a feminist film critic conceptualized the term male gaze which in relation states that the depiction of women is viewed from a heterosexual masculine perspective which in turn presents women as an object to be gazed at by a heterosexual male viewer. she further states that there are three main male perspectives; That of the man behind the camera, That of the male perspectives and representations within the narrative, and that of the spectator of the film gazing at the film.  when conceptualizing this theory, Laura Mulvey Used the theories of both Lacan and Freud as foundations as it allows her to understand these ways through a primordial perspective. As a means of viewing women and the world, the psychoanalytical theories of the male gaze include Freudian and Lacanian ideas such as scopophilia, or joy in looking. The word...

What Is The Male Gaze?   Laura Mulvey's "Male Gaze" theory suggests as the majority of media presented to a general audience is controlled by middle-aged heterosexual white men, we are often placed within a position where the audience has to look at a depiction of women through a rather misogynistic lens as this satisfies the desires of the media distributors.  The “male gaze” invokes the sexual politics of the gaze and suggests a sexualized way of looking that empowers men and objectifies women. In the male gaze, women are visually positioned as an “object” of heterosexual male desire. Scopophilia in relation to the dominance of the male gaze in classical Hollywood cinema, Mulvey refers to scopophilia as the pleasure involved in looking at other people's bodies as (particularly, erotic) objects without being seen either by those on screen or by other members of the audience. Mulvey argues that cinema viewing conditions facilitate both the voyeuristic process of the o...