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44 ”[…]Courbet’s painting raises the question for me as to whether Courbet does not in fact rather brilliantly convey in his partial representation of a woman something of the very partiality of the gaze of love. A partiality depicted by Lacan: When in love I solicit a look, what is profoundly unsatisfying and always missing is that – You never look at me from the place from which I see you. Conversely, what I look at is never what I wish to see.”—The Gaze of Gustave Courbet’s L’origine du monde , a response to Juan Davila Linda Clifton
My apartment this morning, San Diego, CA: 14 July 2011](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_locbh2ei0g1qmj6xqo1_500.jpg)
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”[…]Courbet’s painting raises the question for me as to whether Courbet does not in fact rather brilliantly convey in his partial representation of a woman something of the very partiality of the gaze of love. A partiality depicted by Lacan:
When in love I solicit a look, what is profoundly unsatisfying
and always missing is that – You never look at me from the
place from which I see you. Conversely, what I look at is
never what I wish to see.”
—The Gaze of Gustave Courbet’s L’origine du monde , a response to Juan Davila
Linda Clifton
My apartment this morning, San Diego, CA: 14 July 2011
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