Gradiva - Chasing the Objet Petit 'a beneath the waterline of liquid desire

Marcel Duchamp, "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

Salvador Dali, "The Eye" (1945)

Salvador Dali, "The Eye of the Surrealist"

Salvador Dali, "Scissors"

Dali's "Gradiva" Below the "Waterline"

This is an homage to when critical theorist Slavoj Zizek wrote for Abercrombie & Fitch’s Back to School catalogue from 2003, dotting the hypersexualized images with quotes like “The only successful sexual relationship occurs when fantasies of two partners overlap.”