Paranoiac Critical Interiorisations:

IDEA JOURNAL 2012 Writing/Drawing: Negotiating the Perils and Pleasures of Interiority to read firstly as a means of gaining the social approval that is a precondition of sexual fulfilment. Further, when learning to read one must learn to move one’s eyes in particular sequences and apply particular associative and interpretive structures to thereby understand the sentences, but once it is learned, the process of reading becomes invisible, necessarily invisible to knowledge; and the initial impetus to learn is also forgotten and reading appears as an end in itself, or as a means to an intermediate goal, rather than a means to reproduction. This epistemological foreclosure is part of what Dalí meant with his frequently repeated aphorism, ‘I know what I’m eating, I don’t know what I’m doing.’ 3