about cinephiles

the voyeur is very careful to maintain a gulf, an empty space, between object and the eye , the object and his own body: his look fastens the object at the right distance, as with those cinema spectators who take care to avoid being too close to or too far from the screen. The voyeur represents in space the fracture which forever separates him from the object; he represents his very dissatisfaction (which is precisely what he needs as a voyeur), and thus also his "satisfaction" insofar as it is of a specifically voyeuristic type. To fill the distance would threaten to overwhelm the subject, to lead him to consume an object (the object which is now too close so that he cannot see it anymore), to bring him to orgasm and the pleasure of his own body, hence to exercise of other drives, mobilizing the senses of contact and putting and end to the scopic arrangement.