anamorphosis

is distortion such that a gaze is inscribed into its objective features.

So what is theoretically wrong with this reassertion of melancholy' The problem concerns the status of anamorphosis: anamorphosis designates an object whose very material reality is distorted in such a way that a gaze is inscribed into its objective features. A face that looks grotesquely distorted and protracted acquires consistency... a blurred contour, a stain, becomes a clear entity if we look at it from a certain biased standpoint and is this not one of the succint formulations of ideology' (Zizek 2000 : 659)

anamorphosis, n.All

anamorphosis