The Sexiness of Visuality. A Semantic Aanalysis of the Japanese Words: Eye and Seeing

Abstract

The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, we discuss the active character of seeing, so active that it involves all our being in the experiential field. In the second, on the contrary, it is the active power of the world which is underlined: the dense phenomenon endowed with this strong appeal is also called »eye« in Japanese, just like the visual organ. After these analyses we refer to the specificity of sight among the five senses.