Introduction  1

Part I: Gaze, Voice  

1. The Object Voice / Mladen Dolar  7

2. Philosophers' Blind Man's Buff / Alenka Zupancic  32

3. Killing Gazes, Killing in the Gaze: On Michael Powell's Peeping Tom / Elisabeth Bronfen  59

4. "I Hear You with My Eyes"; or, The Invisible Master / Slavoj Zizek  90

Part II. Love Objects  

5. At First Sight / Mladen Dolar  129

6. On the Sexual Production of Western Subjectivity, or, Saint Augustine as a Social Democrat / Fredric Jameson  154

7. I Can't Love You Unless I Give You Up / Renata Salecl  179

8. "There Is No Sexual Relationship" / Slavoj Zizek  208

Notes on Contributors  251

Index  253

Mladen Dolar

Alenka Zupancic

Elisabeth Bronfen

Slavoj Zizek

Fredric Jameson

Renata Salecl

“The volume is exemplary. The essays collected in it illuminate a range of subject—film and film history, literature and literary history, the figure of the blind man in Enlightenment writing, ‘love at first sight,’ Augustine on intellectuals and sexuality—and they all work together to explicate three crucial and difficult terms in the Lacanian vocabulary: object, voice, gaze.”—Marshall Grossman, University of Maryland

“A marvelous collection of essays written by some of the most prominent figures working today from within a Lacanian paradigm. Though centered on the objects of the voice and the gaze and their status within the experience and structure of love, these essays range over an amazing topography of issues, from penitentiary fantasy and utilitarianism, to film theory and false memory syndrome.”—John Mowitt, University of Minnesota

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