“What Questions Fascinate Me?” “What do I Want to Know?”

The Question of Fascination: Oedipus asked too many questions for his own good. That much we already know. It follows, therefore, that the questions that fascinate me are not necessarily related to “what I want to know,” since fascination already betrays an essential passivity to “the question,” which fascinates me only to the degree that I want to know nothing about it.

“Bad Faith”: Likewise, there are questions that are posed only to avoid asking other questions; for example, in intimate relationships, we talk around the question we really want to ask. These parasitical questions are like the small fish that nibble at the carcass of a drowned man.