ABSTRACT
In her article, de Lauretis opens by commenting on the ambiguities in the film’s title. She Must Be Seeing Things can mean that she is “imagining things that aren’t ‘real,’” or she must be seeing things-there are things that are mandatory for her to see.6 The ambiguity pivots on the question of what constitutes a hallucination; and de Lauretis brilliantly reads the film’s reversal of phallocratic reality, in which “lesbian” desire can appear only as what Freud would have said were “external returns,”7 by showing us that the film positions Agatha and Jo to see together that heterosexuality is a mandatory hallucination. It is precisely this “seeing” together that makes Jo and Agatha inhabit what de Lauretis identifies as a lesbian subject position, and it takes two women to accomplish this fantasy.8
