In this way, the subject exercises maximum epistemic control. We might say that the emblem of such an attitude – the correlate in the realm of vision – is the stare.
Consider the concept of 'the male gaze' in so far as it invalidates the presence of an individual by superimposing the abstraction 'woman' in some form and thus creates the newly/self/re- validated femine object, which exists to be observed/stared at (The validation of this purpose arising from the subject who observes their own superimposed abstraction.)
This seems a reasonable interpretation of any process of alienation or interpersonal distancing. If all problems are interpersonal problems, perhaps they are problems due to losing sight of the interpersonl through this cyclic process of abstraction and reification; through which we create objects or puzzle(pieces) to be fixed or solved, and lose sight of the fundamentally social nature of existing simulatiousy as and in a diadic (at least) relationship of presence.
I.e. That which is 'given' by the individual observed is replaced by that which the observer (one who stares) gives themselves. A self-deluding myopia through abstraction, like putting on a pair of glasses with pin hole lenses. By excluding the 'presense' of the other in the diad the view is narrowed, the same way the pinhole excludes visual date. And, the wearer puts these glasses on themselves; gifts/gives themselves this narrowed (abstracted) perception.
Consider then what happens if the user recognises their role in creating their perception but still fails to aknowledge/recognise the broader reality they exlude themselves from. They may imagine or create numerous variations of the pin hole, suggesting numerous ways to observe the objection of their attention. Some of this may place the pin holes in sub-optimal relation to the eye (like wearing glasses made for another with a broader/narrower face) and thus be judged insufficient, despite the fact they still enable some sense of the gestalt the is being excluded.
