Huskinson Architecture and the Mimetic Self

A psychoanalytic study of how buildings make and break our lives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-24731-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Buildings design us as much as we them. They shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they know all there is to know about the building they inhabit. Misconceptions about what we require from our built environments are rife, not least because our responses to architecture are often difficult to measure, and are partly unconscious. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful theoretical guide to the most salient aspects of our unconscious behaviour in our identifications with buildings, explaining both how and why we are drawn to specific elements and features of architectural design.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huskinson, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION. BUILDINGS DESIGN US AS MUCH AS WE THEM.

CHAPTER TWO ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINTS OF PSYCHE.

CHAPTER THREE THE ARCHITECTURAL EVENT: BUILDINGS AS EVENTS THAT DISCLOSE OUR BEING.

CHAPTER FOUR THE BODY’S ROLE IN THE ARCHITECTURAL EVENT: FORTIFICATION AND CONTAINMENT.

CHAPTER FIVE USING ARCHITECTURE TO THINK OURSELVES INTO BEING:
BUILDINGS AS STOREHOUSES OF UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT.

CHAPTER SIX THE SELF THAT IS DISCLOSED THROUGH ARCHITECTURE.

CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION. ARCHITECTURE THAT CAPTURES THE IMAGINATION: DESIGNING AND RESPONDING TO EVOCATIVE ARCHITECTURE.

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Huskinson, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Religion at Bangor University, UK. She is co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and author and editor of various books and articles on depth psychology and philosophy. Her research interests are principally in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and architecture, and mental health and the built environment. Her previous books include The Urban Uncanny: A collection of interdisciplinary studies (Routledge).