Yet the opening room at Dulwich reveals her sensational precocity in a sequence of lucid self-portraits.
Lucid self-awareness shows us that in making a choice, we can never attain the condition of the "in itself", because what we are is always in question for us.
Slavick's vision especially translates into lucid and self-confident commentary when she concentrates on the artists' work, and it is these passages in the writing that shine.
Loos stands for this idea: a lucid view of self and others requires perpetual polishing of the lens.
At his most lucid, his dry, self-aware interpretations make him a philosopher of fantasy.
It may be academic – in fact its photographs are all lettered like footnotes – but Byrne's theories are robust and original, and his writing lucid and even self-mocking.
Animistic thinking may emerge in meditation or contemplation, lucid dreaming, from self-hypnosis, when drowsy, in 'trance states' induced by repetitious rhythm or light, or when delirious due to illness, brain injury, psychoses, or intoxication with 'entheogenic' drugs – which is probably one reason for the perennial popularity of inducing intoxicated states.
In "Annihilation," our lucid yet chronically self-isolating biologist narrator has lost her estranged husband, a kind and lonely man alongside whom she lived for years in an unfulfilled and oddly yearning marriage.
I found Almond's chapter on "Vampyric Motherhood" particularly lucid: stage mothers derive self worth from each child's accomplishments and "feed from the child to obtain gratifications," while other mothers "co-opt the child's autonomy" by forcing food "into the child — food in the form of ideas, behaviors, allegiances, and beliefs".
