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Contents<br/>Series editor's preface viii<br/>List of illustrations x<br/>Acknowledgments xi<br/>1. Introduction 1<br/>The psyche, aesthetic experience, and architecture 2<br/>Reading Freud, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice 6<br/>Social influence, psychotherapeutic design, wild analysis, and architectural "aeffects" 9<br/>Outline of the book 13<br/>2. Freud and modernity: selfhood and emancipatory self-determination 17<br/>Freud and Vienna: modernity and culture 18<br/>Contrasting architectural preferences in fin-de-siècle Vienna 19<br/>The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900 20<br/>Psychical selfhood and self-determination 22<br/>Trauma, repression, architecture of screen memories, remembering, repeating, and working through 24<br/>Cultural screens, disconnection, negation, and affirmation 32<br/>Conclusion 35<br/>3. Aesthetic experience: the object, empathy, the unconscious, and architectural design 37<br/>Unconsciously projecting oneself and intuiting the shape or form of an art object: Semper, Vischer, Schmarsow, Wölfflin, Giedion, and Moholy-Nagy 38<br/>Stone and phantasy, smooth and rough 44<br/>Inside-outside corners, birth trauma, and character armor 48<br/>The turbulent section and the Paranoid Critical Method 50<br/>Asymmetric blur zones and the uncanny 51<br/>Conclusion 53<br/>4. Open form, the formless, and "that oceanic feeling" 54<br/>Architectural formlessness, not literal formlessness 54<br/>Freud and the spatialities of the psychical apparatus 57<br/>Phases of psychical development in childhood 58<br/>The oral phase 60<br/>Repression 61<br/>Blurred zones and architectural empathy for formlessness 62<br/>Conclusion 67<br/>5. Closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift 68<br/>The second phase of development, the anal phase, and struggles over control of a gift 68<br/>Threshold practices: isolation, repetition, procedures for handling objects, and diverting impulses 71<br/>A very brief history of closed-form, rule-based composition, and control of the architectural gift 72<br/>House II 75<br/>Conclusion 78<br/>6. Architectural simulation: wishful phantasy and the real 79<br/>The third phase of development, the phallic phase: a wish and overcoming prohibitions against the wish 82<br/>Simulation, wishes, and world views 84<br/>"Vertical Horizon" and the plot of phallic phantasy 87<br/>Conclusion 90<br/>7. Spaces of social encounter: freedoms and constraints 92<br/>The last phase of development in childhood, the genital phase, and the search for obtainable objects 95<br/>Open slab versus regime room: empathy for freedom versus constraint in spaces of social encounter 100<br/>Conclusion 103<br/>Conclusion 105<br/>Further Reading 108<br/>References 110<br/>Index 117 |
