unapprehensible

Though the female body remains very much exposed to the male gaze (an exposure that is exaggerated, as suggested earlier, to the point of caricature), Femme piquee is ultimately unapprehensible as an object of erotic delectation.

The poet, a young boy, having climbed a ridge crest where, "Opening like joy, the unapprehensible purity/Of afternoon flooded, in silver,/ the sky," apprehends an unnameable intensity in which all things--his name, his sense of the object world--are swept away by the All.

Beverly Voloshin makes this argument of dependence nicely: "Speculations about whether it is the mind that is not apprehending nature properly or whether nature is unapprehensible" is the characteristic psychological issue of gothic fiction, she writes.