TY  - GEN
AU  - Abell, John
TI  - Freud for architects
SN  - 9781138390683
U1  - 720 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - Contents
Series editor's preface  viii
List of illustrations  x
Acknowledgments  xi
1. Introduction  1
The psyche, aesthetic experience, and architecture  2
Reading Freud, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice  6
Social influence, psychotherapeutic design, wild analysis, and architectural "aeffects"  9
Outline of the book  13
2. Freud and modernity: selfhood and emancipatory self-determination  17
Freud and Vienna: modernity and culture  18
Contrasting architectural preferences in fin-de-siècle Vienna  19
The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900  20
Psychical selfhood and self-determination  22
Trauma, repression, architecture of screen memories, remembering, repeating, and working through  24
Cultural screens, disconnection, negation, and affirmation  32
Conclusion  35
3. Aesthetic experience: the object, empathy, the unconscious, and architectural design  37
Unconsciously projecting oneself and intuiting the shape or form of an art object: Semper, Vischer, Schmarsow, Wölfflin, Giedion, and Moholy-Nagy  38
Stone and phantasy, smooth and rough  44
Inside-outside corners, birth trauma, and character armor  48
The turbulent section and the Paranoid Critical Method  50
Asymmetric blur zones and the uncanny  51
Conclusion  53
4. Open form, the formless, and "that oceanic feeling"  54
Architectural formlessness, not literal formlessness  54
Freud and the spatialities of the psychical apparatus  57
Phases of psychical development in childhood  58
The oral phase  60
Repression  61
Blurred zones and architectural empathy for formlessness  62
Conclusion  67
5. Closed-form, rule-based composition and control of the architectural gift  68
The second phase of development, the anal phase, and struggles over control of a gift   68
Threshold practices: isolation, repetition, procedures for handling objects, and diverting impulses  71
A very brief history of closed-form, rule-based composition, and control of the architectural gift  72
House II  75
Conclusion  78
6. Architectural simulation: wishful phantasy and the real  79
The third phase of development, the phallic phase: a wish and overcoming prohibitions against the wish  82
Simulation, wishes, and world views  84
"Vertical Horizon" and the plot of phallic phantasy  87
Conclusion  90
7. Spaces of social encounter: freedoms and constraints  92
The last phase of development in childhood, the genital phase, and the search for obtainable objects  95
Open slab versus regime room: empathy for freedom versus constraint in spaces of social encounter  100
Conclusion  103
Conclusion  105
Further Reading  108
References  110
Index  117
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