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The Medusean Eye in Thomas Hardy

The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Madding Crowd, glittering “like a dead man’s eye”. The unblinking eye can be an “evil eye”, full of voracity, endowed with a Medusean power, the power to petrify or to kill. Indeed eyes do kill in Hardy...

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מחבר ראשי:	Ramel, Annie
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שפה:	Anglais
יצא לאור:	FATHOM 2018
נושאים:	désir miroir regard double objet-regard mauvais œil anamorphose desire mirror gaze evil eye gaze qua object overlook anamorphosis
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_774 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.774 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.774 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/774 2018-04-23T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gaiv All rights reserved The Medusean Eye in Thomas Hardy FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Ramel, Annie désir miroir regard double objet-regard mauvais œil anamorphose desire mirror gaze double evil eye gaze qua object overlook anamorphosis The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Madding Crowd, glittering “like a dead man’s eye”. The unblinking eye can be an “evil eye”, full of voracity, endowed with a Medusean power, the power to petrify or to kill. Indeed eyes do kill in Hardy’s stories: Mrs Yeobright is killed by the “bad sight” of her daughter-in-law looking at her from a window and not opening the door – the “small black eye” of the live adder later regarding her being a duplicate of Eustacia’s “ill-wishing” dark eyes. At what point does the gaze, which normally makes manifest the “positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire” (Jane Thomas, Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, back cover) turn Medusean? Jacques Lacan’s concept of the unspecularizable “object-gaze” will help us to understand this, and throw a new light on the fictional use which Hardy made of “the evil eye” – a superstition known in Dorset as “overlooking”. L’œil dans la fiction de Thomas Hardy est souvent perçu comme menace : c'est la cas de l’étang ovale éclairé par la lune qui luit “comme l'œil d'un mort” dans Far from the Madding Crowd. L’œil fixe, qui ne cille pas, peut être “le mauvais œil”, plein de voracité, doué d’un pouvoir méduséen, le pouvoir de pétrifier et de tuer. En vérité, l’œil tue dans la fiction de Hardy : Mrs Yeobright est tuée par un “spectacle” au pouvoir maléfique (“a bad sight”), la vue de sa belle-fille qui la regarde par une fenêtre et ne lui ouvre pas la porte – le “petit œil noir” de la vipère qui la regarde plus tard n’étant autre qu’une réplique de l’œil noir de Eustacia, capable de jeter le mauvais sort. À quel moment passe-t-on du regard porteur de désir, qui en rend manifeste la dimension “positive, dynamique et productive” (Jane Thomas, Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) au regard méduséen? Le concept lacanien de “l’objet-regard” nous aidera à comprendre cela, et éclairera d’un jour nouveau l’utilisation fictionnelle que fait Hardy de cette superstition connue dans le Dorset comme “overlooking” (“jeter le mauvais œil”).
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topic	désir miroir regard double objet-regard mauvais œil anamorphose desire mirror gaze double evil eye gaze qua object overlook anamorphosis
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description	The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Madding Crowd, glittering “like a dead man’s eye”. The unblinking eye can be an “evil eye”, full of voracity, endowed with a Medusean power, the power to petrify or to kill. Indeed eyes do kill in Hardy’s stories: Mrs Yeobright is killed by the “bad sight” of her daughter-in-law looking at her from a window and not opening the door – the “small black eye” of the live adder later regarding her being a duplicate of Eustacia’s “ill-wishing” dark eyes. At what point does the gaze, which normally makes manifest the “positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire” (Jane Thomas, Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, back cover) turn Medusean? Jacques Lacan’s concept of the unspecularizable “object-gaze” will help us to understand this, and throw a new light on the fictional use which Hardy made of “the evil eye” – a superstition known in Dorset as “overlooking”.
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title	The Medusean Eye in Thomas Hardy
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The Medusean Eye in Thomas Hardy

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