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Architecture and the Mimetic Self : a Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Buildings design us as much as we them; Architectural blueprints of being; The chapters; Notes; Chapter 2 Architectural blueprints of psyche; Breuer's house of hysteria (1893-1895); Freud's architecture of psyche; Freud's buildings of hysteria; Architectural Rome as City of Memory; Psychosomatic houses of Freud and Scherner; The houses that Jung built; Jung's dream-house of psyche (1909).
- 228 Seestrasse in Küsnacht and the upper storey of the dream-houseThe rectory at Basle, the 'tower' at Bollingen, and the lower storeys of the dream-house; Buildings gaze back; Conclusion: building the self and the self within buildings; Notes; Chapter 3 The architectural event: Buildings as events that disclose our being; Building enduring structures for ourselves; Architecture that inhibits; Architecture as event and container of infinite surplus; The symbolic nature of buildings; Imaginative perception; Discovering ourselves through architecture; Notes.
- Chapter 4 The body's role in the architectural event: Fortification and containmentUnstable bodies, unstable architecture; Mimesis; Freudian mimesis; Lacan's statue; Touching the skin-ego; Psychoanalytic resistance to the nonhuman environment and architectural object; Reinstating architecture as mother's accomplice; The affective built environment prior to mother; Buildings facilitate vital separation from mother; Conclusion: the flesh of the building and the building of flesh; Notes; Chapter 5 Using architecture to think ourselves into being; 'Thinking' unconsciously.
- Creative potentials of unconscious thinkingHenri Poincaré's creative distractions; Stages of creative thinking; The 'dream-work': building blocks of unconscious insight and evocative architectural design; Architecture that distracts, perplexes, and surprises; The distracting spatial procedures of the dream-work; Disclosing unconscious insights through evocative architecture; Revisiting Freud at the Acropolis: Freud's memory building; Conclusion: buildings are inscriptions of us; Notes; Chapter 6 The self that is disclosed through architecture.
- Different models of the unconscious lead to different architectural insightsThe uncanny: the unconscious as it gathers and unfolds its surprise; Disclosing unconscious material: sublime and numinous surprises; Sublime insights; Numinous insights; Uncanny, sublime, or numinous architecture? How to tell the difference; Anaesthetic architecture: the problem of the 'American sublime', and the need for ugliness; Ugliness and distortion; Notes; Chapter 7 Conclusion: architecture that captures the imagination; Making banal buildings evocative by enhancing our capacity to notice them.