Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

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Essays that explore what it means to be a human being draw upon the author's personal experiences; thoughts on memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the visual arts.;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? 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?