"I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a……" — Siri Hustvedt
"I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis."
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92 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt has 92 quotes on this site.
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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of…
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may…
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to…
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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