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