A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind / Siri Hustvedt.

London : Sceptre, 2016.

xviii, 552 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-552).

Introduction -- A woman looking at men looking at women. A woman looking at men looking at women -- Balloon magic -- My Louise Bourgeois -- Anselm Kiefer: the truth is always gray -- Mapplethorpe / Almodóvar: points and counterpoints -- Wim Wenders's Pina: dancing for dance -- Much ado about hairdos -- Sontag on smut: fifty years later -- "No competition" -- The writing self and the psychiatric patient -- Inside the room -- The delusions of certainty -- What are we? : Lectures on the human condition. Borderlands: first, second, and third person adventures in crossing disciplines -- Becoming others -- Why one story and not another? -- I wept for four years and when I stopped I was blind -- Suicide and the drama of self-consciousness -- Subjunctive flights: thinking through the embodied reality of imaginary worlds -- Remembering in art: the horizontal and the vertical -- Philosophy matters in brain matters -- Kierkegaard's pseudonyms and the truths of fiction.