Carve out

1. Does "unable to operate within this overwhelming field of visibility" imply "unable to resist against this overwhelming field of visibility"?

2. Does "to carve out" imply "to record"?

3. Does "being caught" mean "being gazed"?

Context:

For Lacan, and this is an important distinction between Lacan and feminist theorists, the point from which the subject is master of all that s/he surveys is the point of the eye not the gaze. Taking his cue from the philosopher Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, the gaze is instead a totalised field of vision which incorporates the eye or the subject ‘I’ as a blind spot within its totality, much as the subject is but an object in the atmosphere of the world as a whole. The subject ‘I’ only becomes aware of the gaze as an object when the world refuses to reciprocate our desire to be seen or to see. Lacan illustrates his theory using a diagram of two intersecting cones whereby, on one side of the cone, the subject ‘I’ is gazed at by an indifferent world, an all-encompassing gaze without location. On the other side, the subject, unable to operate within this overwhelming field of visibility, which is inhuman, uses its eye to carve out a place in the world, not the whole world but the objects and images that interest it. These images comprise our imaginary field of vision, in which we are master of what we survey rather than being caught in the unseeing gaze of the world.