Cisão entre o olho e o olhar : um percurso pelo real, simbólico e imaginário em Lacan

Abstract

This study investigates the theoretical-conceptual notion of the gaze in Lacan's teaching, structured around three main moments. The first addresses the relationship between vision and the eye in Lacan's early works, where the epistemological axis was the mirror stage, highlighting the function of the eye in the initial presentations of the inverted bouquet scheme (1938-1952). The second moment focuses on the role of the gaze of the Other in the Symbolic register, exploring its function as the institutor of the unary trait in the mirror stage (1952-1961). Finally, the third moment examines the emergence of the gaze as object a in the drive circuit and the Real register (1962-1964), emphasizing desire in the visual field through the limits of optical schemas and the use of surface topology. The dissertation explores the transit of the gaze through the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real registers, emphasizing their interdependence in the constitution of the subject in psychoanalysis. Moreover, it seeks to differentiate visual perception and the gaze in psychoanalytic theory, analyzing their clinical and theoretical implications, and contributing to the deepening of discussions about contemporary modalities of the gaze, the impasses in subjective constitution, and the challenges of the social bond in the present day