King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by which men translated themselves from a world of roles to a world of jobs. The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear . The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Does the interiorization of media such as “letters” alter the ratio among our senses and change mental processes?