'New York novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Professor Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber in the Blaue Saal of Kassel’s Kongress Palais in front of an audience of around 450. Hustvedt reads from her novel “The Blazing World”, which was published in Germany in April 2015 as “Die gleißende Welt“. The German translation of the read passages is projected onto the screen behind her. Subsequently, the author talks about the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, as part of the annual spring meeting of the German Psychoanalytical Society (Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung)..