Abstract
Within the theoretical framework of Lacanian psychology, light is instrumental to the construction of subjectivity. The flickering between the dynamics of and the objectifying mechanisms at work in seen' operate in such a way the I and the eye are intricately and inseparably related. If access to consciousness is through the paradoxical equation of (and its correlates of oneself seeing and oneself being seen), it is light, which operates both in the service and as the embodiment of the provides the space for such (self)reflection. It is through the gaze, Lacan writes, that [the subject enters] light and it is from the gaze [he or she receives] its effects. Hence it comes about the gaze is the instrument through which light is embodied and through which ... [the subject is] photo-graphed.' This illustration points to light's property of fixing the subject as an object in space, of locating the subject as a visible-and seen-object.
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