History & The Arts
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
...solidity that imprisons and the fluidity that dissolves; he is framed by his own body. According to the story, Narcissus looks at his own reflection. The difficulties of seeing, which Lacan evoked with the phrases ‘veiled faces’ and ‘the penumbra of symbolic efficacy,’ are symbolised by the shadow that shades the eyes that see without recognizing, so much so that...