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_bABE
100 _aAbell, John
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245 _aFreud for architects
260 _bRoutledge
_aNew York
_c2021
300 _axi,125p.
440 _aThinkers for architects No.17
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505 _aContents 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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