A Striptease in Pink Limelight: Removing the Veil between the Subjective and the Objective

Surrealism attempted to demonstrate the permeability of any barrier set up between subjective and objective reality. Not only did Dali revolutionise this project, he also pre-empted much of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in the process. This paper argues for Dali's influence on Lacan as well his complex contribution (through the theory underpinning his Paranoid-Critical method) to any dialectical understanding of materiality.