Statement 9

“The gaze I encounter … is not a seen gaze, but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the Other.” In a similar way, our project is not framed just by the premise of the objectivities coming out of the Enlightenment (what we call ‘research’). That is its outward appearance. Our project aims to frame a way of knowing imagined by us in the field of Modernity, but oriented towards it periphery. It is a ‘research’ that, as a monitoring force, hopefully brings out the potential for a neurotic point of view that asks questions about what our modernity actually is, how it is perceived, and how it should be perceived by others.”

[Jacques Lacan, The Seminar 1964, Book XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis (New York: Karnac, 1973) 84]