Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I gratefully acknowledge the museums and institutions that invited me to speak as part of their lecture series, which inspired the writing of several essays in this collection, as well as the magazines and journals where a number of others were originally published.

“Variations on Desire: A Mouse, a Dog, Buber and Bovary,” Conjunctions: 48 (2007).

“My Strange Head: Notes on Migraine,” New York Times migraine blogs: migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/author/siri-hustvedt (2007).

“Search for a Definition,” Assises Du Roman 2009: Lexique Nomade, Le Monde, Villa Gillet, Christian Bourgois, Paris (2009).

“Playing, Wild Thoughts, and a Novel’s Underground.” Delivered in Lyon at the Villa Gillet Writer Festival (2009).

“Sleeping/Not Sleeping,” New York Times insomnia blogs: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/all-nighters (2010).

“Outside the Mirror,” Allure (May 2011).

“Some Musings on the Word Scandinavia,” Lettre Internationale, Denmark: 08 (2005).

“My Inger Christensen,” Jyllands Posten [Danish newspaper] (Jan. 8, 2009); reprinted in Poetry (May 2009).

“My Father/Myself,” Granta: 104 (2008).

“The Real Story,” Salmagundi: Spring/Summer (2011).

“Excursions to the Islands of the Happy Few,” Salmagundi: Fall/Winter (2010).

“On Reading,” Columbia: 49 (2011).

“Stig Dagerman.” Foreword to The Snake, Ormen, Norstedts Forlag, Sweden (2010).

“The Analyst in Fiction: Reflections on a More or Less Hidden Being,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis: 46, no. 2 (2010).

“Three Emotional Stories.” Delivered as a lecture as part of Pain, Poetry, and Perception: A Symposium on the Convergence of Neuroscience, Literature, and Psychoanalysis at Georgetown University, Oct. 30, 2010. Sponsored by the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Department of Psychiatry Georgetown University Hospital. Neuropsychoanalysis: 13, no. 2 (Dec. 2011).

“Freud’s Playground.” Delivered as the thirty-ninth annual Sigmund Freud Lecture for the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna (May 6, 2011); published in Salmagundi: Spring/Summer (2012).

“Notes on Seeing,” Nomadikon: The Bergen Center of Visual Culture: www.nomadikon.net/contentjtem.aspx?ci=125.

“The Drama of Perception: Looking at Morandi.” Delivered as a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of New York in the series Sunday Lectures at the Met (Sept. 21, 2008); published in The Yale Review: 97, no. 4 (2009).

“Louise Bourgeois” published as “The Places That Scare You” in The Guardian (Oct. 6, 2007).

“Duccio di Buoninsegna at the Met.” “La Vierge et l’Enfant” in Nouvel Observateur (Aug. 18, 2005).

“Kiki Smith: Bound and Unbound,” catalogue essay for Kiki Smith: Wellspring, Repères, Cahiers d’ art contemporain, no. 139, Galerie Lelong, Paris (2007).

“This Living Hand” as “The Writer Siri Hustvedt on the Experience of Drawing” in The Guardian (Sept. 19, 2009).

“Truth and Rightness: Gerhard Richter,” catalogue essay for Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs. Museum Morsbrich, Leverkusen, Centre de la photographie Genève (2009).

“Annette Messager: Hers and Mine,” published as “Puppet Master” in The Guardian (Feb. 21, 2009).

“Necessary Leaps: Richard Allen Morris,” catalogue essay for Richard Allen Morris Retrospective: 1958–2004 at the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2005).

“Margaret Bowland’s Theatrum Mundi,” catalogue essay for Excerpts from the Great American Songbook, Babcock Galleries, New York, and the Greenville County Museum of Art (2011).

“Why Goya?” Delivered as a lecture at the Prado Museum in Madrid for Lecture Series sponsored by Fundacion Amigos Museo del Prado (Feb. 20, 2007); published in Spanish as “Francisco de Goya o los equivos,” by Fundacion Amigos Museo del Prado (2008).

“Embodied Visions: What Does It Mean to Look at a Work of Art?” Delivered as the third annual Schelling Lecture at the Academie der Bildenen Künste in Munich (Feb. 27, 2010); published as a bilingual book by Deutscher Kunst Verlag (2010); published in The Yale Review: 98, no. 4 (2010).