Kirpal Singh mistakenly perceives a face with an image of the gaze, with a gaze-image. Saying that he erred with these two aspects is not detrimental at all for his greatness. I only mean to say, that in this case he does not express himself quite that scientifically nor intellectually precise, which we do expect in psychoanalysis.
I don't believe that the guru's face was an object of desire, nor did it stand in the foreground of this 'vision' as an extreme narcissism (autoerotism) or even as a fetish. Maybe, some bliss resonating in the meditating person. Kirpal Singh expresses himself quite unspecific in this case; he seems to have been mistaken. But, he himself was integrity in person. He could afford to often express things mythically and with much significance.
But the vision of a face always has something of a hallucination to it, has something of an unconscious object to it, unless you understand it to be a simple mental vision, or a landscaped perspective, or something supported by a science.1 In writing this comparative biography in such a seemingly contradicting manner, in considering contradictions, in stressing paradoxes, we will, in the end, arrive at a synthesis, at a new therapeutic procedure, a new language, at the true goal.
Thus, the necessity to express things in such a definitive manner. I will explain later how the case of mistaken identity of Kirpal Singh could be understood as a form of Hypomania and how I would like to set against that a normal Psychocatharis by my method.
1 Here, we could also refer to the term "Klartraum" (= lucid dream) as is used by the philosopher W. Seitter. This term does not describe a normal dream, but a type of visual which is rather conscious and allows accompanying thoughts without being extra-wakening consciousness. However, the contents of the lucid dream are not without desire either, or without objects of desire. The "Klartraum" does not mean that everything is mentally or scientifically clear! Also see his book: Kunst der Wacht, Philo Verlag (2001), pages 23 and 202.