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"Irigaray's theories of touch are founded on her perception that female eroticism is not based on the visual, unlike the male voyeuristic gaze, but rather on touching. Touch requires closeness or nearness while vision is distancing, so that all relations that privilege sight privilege distance between subject and object; therefore true connection is impossible in a system that privileges vision."

LOVE this idea!!

"In The Cut" creates a woman who is 'becoming': her journey is not about well-being, redemptive moral realization, or recuperation into patriarchal discourse. It is a journey into her own interiority, albeit, as Gillet notes, "through the killing-fields of the phallocentric imaginary'

Thus ends the study of In The Cut. Next up, Lost In Translation.

The Challenge: lay your hands on a copy of Morvern Callar before you reach the chapter devoted to the film. Must do.