The nature of the Gaze, says Levin, is practical and aggressively active. A sense of wholeness and fullness, and the awareness of the world as resonance are lacking. Auditory images evoke an archetypally feminine mode. Hearing is vibratory, surrounding, surrounded by. Participatory, flowing, receptive, audition is replete with images of cupping, dark and fleshy passages, moist and hairy sensitivity, and watery labyrinths.
Acoustic energy is received into openings.
It pulses and curves inward along dark canals. It coils in moisture and fluid. And finally, it sparks along neural passages that create new response, new life. The process of hearing is linked with creation, insemination, pregnancy and birth. The images of the hearing process suggest a gestation of meaning.