Central to the theory and practice of art, embodied fantasy is also under the consideration of those in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive sciences, philosophy, and phenomenology. These twenty essays cover this range, including imagination, sensible difference, thwarted expectations, places and space, posing and exposing. Topics include what imagining has to do with images, bio-ethics and luminous ores, what kind of relationship exists between visibility and overlooking, synchronies of vision and touch, the schematism of the modalities, Carsten Holler's SOMA and Matthew Barney's Cremaster, embodying the cave in phenomenal art, experimentally induced psychosis in nineteen century France, the strange friendship of Wolgang Pauli and Carl Jung, Naoko Tanaka's "Die Scheinwerferin," patterns which connect, the Modern Projection Planetarium, planetary design, staging nature, fantasy in a non-given world, seeing red, dance as an embodied fantasy of writing, self-portraits in Facebook, spiegelei, Matthew Barney, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Adolph Menze. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)