The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition - Softcover

Jane Rendell

9781784536541: The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784536547 ISBN 13: 9781784536541

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2017

How do external material environments and the inner world of emotion, memory and imagination influence each other? 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.

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Review:

The three narratives demonstrate a competent approach ... An enjoyable read. * Psychoanalysis and History *

About the Author:

Jane Rendell is Professor of Architecture and Art, and Vice Dean of Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Site-writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (I.B.Tauris, 2011) and Art and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2006) among other publications.

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