Zizek: Muslim vs. Gaze
...the description of the extraordinary status of the muslim is that they represent those who went in the forbidden area, area of the indescribable pain: they met, face to face with das Ding...
...at the one of the basic levels, it is a matter of positivisation of the impossibility of seeing the fetish-object. now, how does object-gaze become fetish? through hegel's reversal of the impossibility of not seeing the object, into the object giving content to the impossibility itself: since the subject cannot see the deadly fascinating Thing (das Ding), he creates a reflection into himself and in that manner the object of fascination becomes the Gaze itself.
...at the one of the basic levels, it is a matter of positivisation of the impossibility of seeing the fetish-object. now, how does object-gaze become fetish? through hegel's reversal of the impossibility of not seeing the object, into the object giving content to the impossibility itself: since the subject cannot see the deadly fascinating Thing (das Ding), he creates a reflection into himself and in that manner the object of fascination becomes the Gaze itself.