There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother – wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There’s no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud’s death instinct. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
When I don’t get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Writers are in control of editing processes – making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I’m doing and dream a little about this and that. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
