The thesis shows through literary texts and images the look as an object productive of fascination and horror. This menacing look is present in literature, film scripts, and the plastic arts. According to philosophical tradition, the look is associated with the eye that sees, with the subject. As it postulates the look as an object of pulsion, Psychoanalysis stresses the fact that the libido is present in the visual field and, therefore, the look is not restricted to the vision only. It is in this schize between the eye and the look that scopic pulsion is manifested, evincing the relation between the subject and this unapprehensible object of desire called look. In its fascinating aspect, the look is like a flash of light that captures the subject while it terrifies and frightens on its horror side, owing to its relation with castration and the feminine enigma. When the eye and the look cannot be distinguished, there is madness.