AUTHOR’S NOTE
LIVING
VARIATIONS ON DESIRE: A Mouse, a Dog, Buber, and Bovary
MY MOTHER, PHINEAS, MORALITY, AND FEELING
SEARCH FOR A DEFINITION
MY STRANGE HEAD: Notes on Migraine
PLAYING, WILD THOUGHTS, AND A NOVEL’S UNDERGROUND
SLEEPING/NOT SLEEPING
OUTSIDE THE MIRROR
SOME MUSINGS ON THE WORD SCANDINAVIA
MY INGER CHRISTENSEN
MY FATHER/MYSELF
FLOWERS
THINKING
THE REAL STORY
EXCURSIONS TO THE ISLANDS OF THE HAPPY FEW
ON READING
STIG DAGERMAN
THE ANALYST IN FICTION: Reflections on a More or Less Hidden Being
CRITICAL NOTES ON THE VERBAL CLIMATE
THREE EMOTIONAL STORIES
FREUD’S PLAYGROUND
LOOKING
NOTES ON SEEING
THE DRAMA OF PERCEPTION: Looking at Morandi
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
OLD PICTURES
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA AT THE MET
KIKI SMITH: Bound and Unbound
THIS LIVING HAND
TRUTH AND RIGHTNESS: Gerhard Richter
ANNETTE MESSAGER: Hers and Mine
NECESSARY LEAPS: Richard Allen Morris
MARGARET BOWLAND’S THEATRUM MUNDI
WHY GOYA?
EMBODIED VISIONS: What Does It Mean to Look at a Work of Art?
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
