The Pineal Eye
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- "Car l'enfant qui dans sa terreur d'être tranché cherche à provoquer l'issue sanglante, ne fait aucunement preuve d'absence de virilité : un excès de force, au contraire, et une crise d'horreur le projettent aveuglément vers tout ce qu'il y a au monde de plus tranchant, c'est-à- dire l'éclat solaire."
"L'Œil pinéal" (1927, English: The Pineal Eye) is a text by French philosopher Georges Bataille.
The notion of a "pineal-eye" is central to the philosophy of Georges Bataille, which is analyzed at length by literary scholar Denis Hollier in his study Against Architecture.
Hollier remarks that Bataille uses the concept of a "pineal-eye" as a reference to a blind spot in Western rationality, and an organ of excess and delirium.
This conceptual device is also explicit in his text "The Jesuve".
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See also
- "voir les cinq versions de L'œil Pinéal"
- Pineal gland
- Parietal eye
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