BITENCOURT, Amauri Carboni. From the act of seeing to the look which shows: psychoanalytic and philosophical observations from the work of art. Nat. hum. []. 2015, 17, 2, pp.93-111. ISSN 1517-2430.

In this research we intend to analyze the eye squize and the looking in the painting from the Lacanian reading of the Visible and the invisible, by Merleau-Ponty. On one hand, the seeing act apprehends the objects from the cultural world and overtakes it; on the other hand, there's the view from what has been shown to the observer, disarranging his perceptual field. This uninvolved vision, this look that perceives and enchants us is conceived by Lacan as the Royal Registry and described by Merleau-Ponty as a "Foreigner eye". This "Foreigner eye" come to surprise the painter (and the spectator), sprouting from the invisible horizon background, being inexhaustible, inscribing itself continuously, and producing wishes and inciting the artist to pursuit new creations. In this regard, this paper is aimed to investigate Lacan's reading from Merleau-Ponty in XI Seminar, the looking as strangeness from the text Visible and the Invisible, and the implications in the "unnamed visibility" that inhabits the work of art.

: squize; foreigner eye; invisible horizon; creation; visibility unnamed.

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