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Author Abell, John (John H.)

Title Freud for architects / John Abell
Published New York : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (138 p.)
Series Thinkers for architects
Thinkers for architects.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The psyche, aesthetic experience, and architecture -- Reading Freud, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice -- Social influence, psychotherapeutic design, wild analysis, and architectural "aeffects" -- Outline of the book -- 2. Freud and modernity: selfhood and emancipatory self-determination -- Freud and Vienna: modernity and culture -- Contrasting architectural preferences in fin-de-siècle Vienna
The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900 -- Psychical selfhood and self-determination -- Trauma, repression, architecture of screen memories, remembering, repeating, and working through -- Cultural screens, disconnection, negation, and affirmation -- Conclusion -- 3. Aesthetic experience: the object, empathy, the unconscious, and architectural design -- Unconsciously projecting oneself and intuiting the shape or form of an art object: Semper, Vischer, Schmarsow, Wölfflin, Giedion, and Moholy-Nagy -- Stone and phantasy, smooth and rough -- Inside-outside corners, birth trauma, and character armor
The turbulent section and the paranoid critical method -- Asymmetric blur zones and the uncanny -- Conclusion -- 4. Open form, the formless, and that oceanic feeling -- Architectural formlessness, not literal formlessness -- Freud and the spatialities of the psychical apparatus -- Phases of psychical development in childhood -- The oral phase -- Repression -- Blurred zones and architectural empathy for formlessness -- Conclusion -- 5. Closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift -- The second phase of development, the anal phase, and struggles over control of a gift
Threshold practices: isolation, repetition, procedures for handlingobjects, and diverting impulses -- A brief history of closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift -- House II -- Conclusion -- 6. Architectural simulation: wishful phantasy and the real -- The third phase of development, the phallic phase, a wish and overcoming prohibitions against the wish -- Simulation, wishes, and world views -- "Vertical horizon" and the plot of phallic phantasy -- Conclusion -- 7. Spaces of social encounter: freedoms and constraints
The last phase of development in childhood, the genital phase, and the search for obtainable objects -- Open slab versus regime room: empathy for freedom versus constraint in spaces of social encounter -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- References -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Subject Architecture -- Philosophy
architectural theory.
Architecture -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429751448
0429751443