CONTENTS
Variations on Desire: A Mouse, a Dog, Buber, and Bovary
My Mother, Phineas, Morality, and Feeling
My Strange Head: Notes on Migraine
Playing, Wild Thoughts, and a Novel’s Underground
Some Musings on the Word Scandinavia
Excursions to the Islands of the Happy Few
The Analyst in Fiction: Reflections on a More or Less Hidden Being
Critical Notes on the Verbal Climate
The Drama of Perception: Looking at Morandi
Duccio di Buoninsegna at the Met
Truth and Rightness: Gerhard Richter
Annette Messager: Hers and Mine
Necessary Leaps: Richard Allen Morris
Margaret Bowland’s Theatrum Mundi
Embodied Visions: What Does It Mean to Look at a Work of Art?