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Siri Hustvedt and Lisa Appignanesi

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The Placenta and the Mind

There's quite a bit of work on that now in contemporary neuroscience and neurology. How do we think about what's happening? I think the question of agency is a very good one. So this is obviously a theoretical notion, but they have isolated certain areas that seem to be affected in the brain. It will seem like metaphors for large containers whereby things can bounce against them and always be absorbed. And I just wondered, obviously, all your thought is percolated through a mind that can keep on reorientating itself. Have you ever felt your own boundaries becoming blurred? Do you feel that sense of like a man confronting a book that you might not understand? Does every parallel in your

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