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The term Medusa Complex was coined in 1948 by Gaston Bachelard [2] to cover the feeling of petrification induced by the threat of the parental gaze. [3] A mute, paralysed fury responds to the danger of the obliteration of an individual consciousness by an external Other (and perhaps by the corresponding internalised desire to obliterate the subjectivity of others in turn).
Gaze following, or shared gaze, can be found in a number of primates. [6]: 155–71 [34] Domesticated animals such as dogs and horses also demonstrate shared gaze. [37] [38] This type of joint attention is important for animals because gaze shifts serve as indicators alerting the animal to the location of predators, mates, or food. [6]
Male-gaze theory also proposes that the male gaze is a psychological "safety valve for homoerotic tensions" among heterosexual men; in genre cinema, the psychological projection of homosexual attraction is sublimated onto the women characters of the story, to distract the spectator of the film story from noticing that homoeroticism is innate to ...
The actions of the partners can be matched, as when one partner imitates the other or when there is mutual smiling. When reciprocal socialization has been investigated in infancy, mutual gaze or eye contact has been found to play an important role in early social interaction. "In one investigation, the mother and infant engaged in a variety of ...
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself.
Within their first year, Infants learn rapidly that the looking behaviors of others convey significant information. Infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in mutual gaze and that, from an early age, healthy babies show enhanced neural processing of direct gaze. [17] Eye contact is another major aspect of facial communication.
Eye contact signals intent of communication and the social significance of eye gaze engages theory of mind computations. [13] Because there is an overlap of activation in structures involved in theory of mind computation with regions associated with eye contact detection, this model proposes that this is the mechanism that causes the eye ...
The Social Psychology of Work (Allen Lane 1972), ISBN 0-7139-0186-1; Skills With People: A Guide for Managers (Hutchinson 1973), ISBN 0-09-116481-8, with Elizabeth Sidney and Margaret Brown; Bodily Communication (Methuen 1975), ISBN 0-416-67450-X; Gaze and Mutual Gaze (Cambridge University Press 1976), ISBN 0-521-20865-3, with Mark Cook