Jacques Lacan Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychoanalyst
Life: April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981
Birthday: April 13
Death: September 9
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.
source: Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.164, Karnac Books
topic: Eye, Evil, Movement, Terminal, Evil Eye, Arresting
