Every reader needs a womb to read in; some enclosure of solitude which protects the reader, temporarily, from the consequences of the Reality Principle. Before your mother is your Mother, she is a womb. In the absence of this protected space there no space to read in; no place protected from the social gaze.

The Reality Principle is the Dominance Principle. The parent dominates the child in the same way that reality dominates the unreal; the same way that conceptual thought dominates imagination. Absent this domination the corporate body does not survive. The corporate body is the body of reality, a four-dimensional body, a body in which depth perception dominates imagination. And so it is that the body seeks refuge from the dominance of conceptuality, in a space sealed off from the Law, an imaginary space that is at once the reader and the womb. The dreamspace of sleep is one such space, and the space of reading/writing is another.

Why is dominance necessary? Why is it necessary that the species orginate and survive? Is imagination dependent upon a body of thought?