The Theory Of Gaze And Contemporary Cultural Criticism

"Gaze" is a very important postmodernism concept, it is a way of seeing,.In the westthe discussion of seeing can be traced back to the earliest ancient Greek times, andpeople did not lose interest in discuss the eyes because of long time.At the ancientGreece, the eye has risen to the position of the recently from the truth,.The studies ofseeing have reached the theoretical height,.So,the theory of seeing is very significant forignorant people.As people serrching the strengthen theory height, the philosophical meaning ofseeing is gradually changing.Soul from Plato’s vision to look at the spirit of Descartes,thevisual ’center in the West along with a rational first, the object dichotomy openingushered in a philosophical way of viewingmutation. But because the visual doctrine isself-centered, eyesissued to others, makes this an absolute advantage called his "I"toproduce a series of gaze surrounded by a sense of the people gradually to the visualcenter of revolt, from the visual doctrine of Husserl and the existentialism begangradually being digestedand subversion, Heidegger found that the integrity of the peopleand the world, Hou Sate in the gaze of others that can not be circumvented their owneyes as the window of the soul acceptedother people’s eyes, the gaze, self-exposed, underthe watchful eye of all others, this watch along with our growth, and even change thetrajectory of our lives has created an enormouspressure on our, we only have to use theirown eyes the gaze of others, to make the balance of power. At this point, the conceptofthe gaze was officially Lacan put forward into the theoretical circles, psychoanalyticgaze mechanism along with the baby’sinitial ideal self ideal and self-identity, and sexualdrive are all the time the main gaze. to post-structuralism, Foucault has the gazeof powerplaced in the society as a whole, people are in a scientific, cold, and difficult to obtainunder the spire, panoramicand bright eyes of the powers the supervision of absolutefreedom. Contemporary along with the rapid development ofmodern visual technology,film and new media technology ismaturing, staring at the key concepts frequently used toresist thevisual center ’, the art of painting, film and photography, the gazeof male tofemale, white civilians staring gaze and rulers of blackswith a strong will to power ofcolor and the identity of genderpolitical consciousness.