The Threshold of the Visible World

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Threshold
	1. The Bodily Ego
		The Visual Imago
		Sensation and the Bodily Ego
		Identity-at-a-Distance
		Gaze and Screen
		The Fantasy of the Body in Bits and Pieces
		The Self-Same Body
		Fanon and the Black Male Bodily Ego
		Freud and the Female Bodily Ego
		Prolagomena to a Fuller Discussion of Idealization
	2. From the Ideal-Ego to the Active Gift of Love
		The Ideal-Ego
		The Ideal-Ego and the Fantasy of the Body in Bits and Pieces: 1
		The Ideal-Ego and the Fantasy of the Body in Bits and Pieces: 2
		The Ideal-Ego and the Fantasy of the Body in Bits and Pieces: 3
		The Ideal-Ego and the Fantasy of the Body in Pieces: 4
		The Ego-ideal
		The Gift of love
		Making the Gift of Love Active
	3. Political Ecstasy
		Brecht and Cinema
		Cinematic Identification
		The Leap into Opposition
		Cinema and the Arua
		The Ceremoinal Image
The Visible World
	4. The Gaze
		Camera and Eye
		The Gaze and the Camera
		The Look as Spectacle
		The Camera as Social Apparatus
		How to Face a Camera
		The Resistant Look
	5. The Look
		Sartre and Le Regard
		Lacan and the Field of Vision
		Toward an Ethics of the Look
		The Given-to-Be-Seen
		The Productive Look
		The Disembodied Wound
	6. The Screen
		The Photographic World Picture
		The Pose
		The Unitled Flim Stills
		The "Good Enough"
Notes
Index