The clinic of the gaze has a very humble origin in our field. With a few exceptions, which will have to be accounted for, there is nothing spectacular about it. It is concomitant with the entry into analysis at the moment at which, passing to the couch, having become analysand, the patient can no longer draw support from the analyst’s gaze, the moment at which the latter is situated outside the analysand’s field of vision.
A cut – A desire
It is at this moment that the gaze emerges as a separated object, separated from the exchange of the specular relation.
In this way, the gaze object was born of Freud’s desire, at the moment at which he invented the analytic device. For each analysis, the analyst’s desire intervenes to create this field where the gaze can isolate itself as a separate object.
This is how the object gaze results from a subtraction, or, more radically, a cut.
