John Abell

Freud for Architects (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429751455
• Artikelnr.: 60351981

Autorenporträt

John Abell, PhD, specializes in modern architectural design and urban design critical theory, particularly as these intersect with aesthetic experience, material craft, and design technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

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 handling objects
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.