By having dialogue with some Continental thinkers concerned with the duplicity of vision, such as Derrida, Levinas, and Blanchot, this essay aims to examine Lawrence's exploration of the paradoxical relations between the eye and the field of vision, the mind and the field of knowledge. In his interrogation of ocular-/ego-centrism in Western thought, Lawrence shares with these thinkers the strong urge to expose the blinding function of rational light and the appropriating nature of narcissistic ego. Yet an attentive reading of the textual differences and nuances in his writing demonstrates that his end in view is a redressing of the dialectical balance between mind/light and body/blindness instead of a fundamental critique of the very nature of the former. Lawrence's deliberation of the problem of seeing and knowing contributes to our rethinking of ethical questions in terms of language.