According to Roland Barthes, the eye belongs to a "globular" chain of metaphors, where it is interchangeable with eggs, bull testicles, the sun, and the head of a penis .
In Story of the Eye , every act of sex is an act of sacrifice. Marcelle is sacrificed to madness and suffocation. The priest is sacrificed to perversion. The eye is sacrificed to the vagina. This is not nihilism; it is a sacred liturgy for atheists. By destroying the eye (the symbol of rational sight), Bataille allows his characters to see differently —with a “base materialism” that finds god in a dirty toilet. george bataille the eye
The novella’s turning point occurs at a bullfight where a matador’s eye is gouged out by a bull's horn. This moment represents the "coincidence of opposites"—the peak of erotic excitement meeting the peak of violent horror. Core Philosophical Themes According to Roland Barthes, the eye belongs to