Reading Architecture With Freud and Lacan - Shadowing the Public Realm

This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It should be of interest to anyone who is interested in how the environment we build is a reflection of our desire.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Preface on entitlement 1. Introduction to psychoanalysis [the unconscious] 2. Reading Giedion reading history through Lacan [symbolic, imaginary, & real space] 3. Brunelleschi and the visual field [desire & space] 4. Rossi and the field of the Other [planning or the unconscious] 5. Frampton and Scott Brown/Venturi [the social institution of the city or the death drive] 6. To conclude with climate change [discourse & the ethics of psychoanalysis] Postscript: Subjective theory and practice [rooms+cities] Bibliography Figure Credits Figure Notes Index

About the author

Lorens Holm teaches Architecture at the University of Dundee, where he runs a design research unit called rooms+cities. His published work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectivity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. He recently organised the international conference Architecture & Collective Life.

Summary

This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It should be of interest to anyone who is interested in how the environment we build is a reflection of our desire.

Product details

• Authors: Lorens Holm, Lorens (University of Dundee Holm, Holm Lorens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780367077990
• ISBN: 978-0-367-07799-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Theory of architecture, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Civil engineering, surveying and building