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Author:   John Abell
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138390676

ISBN 10:   1138390674
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   23 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"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."

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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.

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