If we interpret it literally or figuratively, we end up with similar results. Her blindness is doubly troublesome when we consider her inability to think. I lose my mind. She has tied all processes of her body, on conscious and unconscious levels, to her lover. No wonder she is so helpless without him.
Lacanian theory supports a reading focusing on vision and childhood development.
Her sorrow comes having no one to care for, the job a mother usually fulfills in childhood. Her desire to develop another relationship that would replace that broken affiliation suggests the possibility of an Electra complex. Of course, Lacan cared little about determining Woman s place in his theory. Let us not discount the legend of Oedipus Rex though. The song reeks with overtones of blindness, sexuality, and tragedy.