I've come to think of consciousness as a continuum of states, from fully awake cogitation to daydreaming to the altered consciousness of hallucinations and dreams. Still, interpreting dreams can only take place when we're awake. I believe meaning is what the mind makes and wants. It's essential to perception and to consciousness in all its forms. But the important meanings of psychotherapy are subjective. There's a lot of research that confirms that drem content reflects the dreamer's emotional conflicts.
Siri Hustvedt
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
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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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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]
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Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
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