Urging the adolescent writer to break free of formal notions of form, Sirc views the journal as the media through which Orpheus yearns for Eurydice. Sirc uses Orpheus's moment of violation as argument for creative form in writing versus the standard polished text. “Eurydice's disappearance symbolizes a loss that is recuperated by the compensatory gift of Orpheus's song” (Huffer 175).Īnother interpretation or usage of the gaze of Orpheus is by Geoffrey Sirc. Blanchot uses the myth to transcribe the creative process. Rendering this dark point, the lure, the point in which the artist's control is undermined, is also the object of the work of art.” (New Media Narratives). The path taken by Orpheus from light to dark and back to light is symbolic of the artist's journey from reality to the edges of the surreal, “…the force that enables Orpheus to cross the boundaries of light and life, and to descend to Eurydice, according to Blanchot, is that of art. Some have offered, “.the Orpheus myth as a model which provides ways to discuss many of the features of Blanchot's work, which until now appeared not to have common thematic links” (Champagne 1254). Interpretations Maurice Blanchot īlanchot's interpretation or use of the Gaze of Orpheus is in artistic creation. Some of the most famous uses of the gaze of Orpheus can be found in Maurice Blanchot’s work The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Sirc’s, The Composition’s Eye/Orpheus’s Gaze/Cobain’s Journals, and Jaques Lacan’s work on the mirror stage Common analogies are made between Orpheus's gaze and writing processes, philosophical interpretation, and artistic origins. The Gaze of Orpheus has since been evaluated by many a philosopher and literary critic. (Cited in “Greek Mythology Link: Orpheus”) Following his descent into the Underworld Orpheus disobeys Hades’ and Persephone's condition for release of his wife Eurydice.įor he who overcome should turn back his gaze

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