fascinance means A transformational and creative gaze, contrasted with the Lacanian "fascinum". Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Why this word is great
FASCINANCE — [Noun] A psychoanalytic term for a creative, compassionate, and transformative mode of gazing or relating, theorized as emerging from the matrixial encounter. Coined by Bracha L. Ettinger from the English 'fascinate' (from Latin fascinare, 'to bewitch or enchant') with the suffix '-ance', forming a noun denoting a state or quality. Unlike the Lacanian fascinum, which petrifies its object in a grip of anxious mastery, or empathy, which generalizes shared feeling from a secure distance, fascinance is an aesthetic impulse born of borderlinking, where self and unknown other co-emerge without erasure. It is the softening look between mother and infant that creates a shared threshold of feeling, the artist’s hand tracing a line that listens to the grain of the paper, or the silent recognition between strangers that momentarily dissolves the carapace of solitude—a quiet enchantment where being is not stared at, but witnessed into being.
noun
- A transformational and creative gaze, contrasted with the Lacanian "fascinum".“In this spiral movement, the psyche-spirit of the painter, in itself already an expression of trans-subjective psychic involvment^([sic]), is embroidered by a passionate actively-passive fascinance.”