Professor Doane said in class today that in Vertigo, the eye is an erotogenic zone. I understand how the eye plays a crucial role in the film; Scottie’s scopophilia, the audience’s voyeurism, Scottie’s vertigo (“dysfunction of eye in relation to space”) can all be traced back to a function of the eye. However, I don’t fully understand how that makes the eye an erotogenic zone when Sottie doesn’t necessarily feel sexual pleasure with the eyes. Also, when prof. Doane was explaining the oedipal complex, she mentioned that the fear of losing eyes is a form of castration anxiety? I am again unsure how the eyes relate to castration.