The Architecture of Psychoanalysis Spaces of Transition

• Main Author: Rendell, Jane 1967- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London I.B. Tauris 2017
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis and architecture; Housing > Psychological aspects; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
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• Physical Description: 297 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical reference and index
• ISBN: 9781784536541

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical 'setting' of the psychoanalytic encounter, with reference to Sigmund Freud, D.W. Winnicott and Andre Green. Building on the innovative writing methods employed in Art and Architecture and Site-Writing, she also addresses the concept of architecture as 'social condenser' a Russian constructivist notion that connects material space and community relations. Tracing this idea's progress from 1920s Moscow to 1950s Britain, Rendell shows how interior and exterior meet in both psychoanalysis and architectural practice. Illuminating a novel field of interdisciplinary enquiry, this book breathes fresh life into notions of social space."