Terms of the Day for September 9

• The Gaze - a psychoanalytical term that describes the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed as an object.
• The Male Gaze – a type of gaze which occurs when an artist puts the viewer into the perspective of a heterosexual man by representing women as an erotic object to be observed.
• Neoplantonism – a Renaissance philosophy which attempted to reconcile the philosophies of the ancient Greek philosophers Socrates & Plato, and prophecies told by ancient Greek sibyls, with Christianity.  One of its tenants was the metaphoric relationship of the beauty of women with nature and spirituality.