![]() What emerges is the realisation that while the search for understanding might not lead us to an absolute truth, it is an end in itself. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray and his production of an image of his wife's hand Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing and his work, as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk, on the anatomy of pregnant bodies. In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. "It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it. ![]()
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