Architecture and psychoanalysis
Subtitle: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan
By: John Shannon Hendrix.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Eisenman, Peter, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation; Lacan, Jacques, 1901- -- Criticism and interpretation; Psychoanalysis and architecture
Description: "Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses on the writings and projects of Peter Eisenman. There are extended discussions on the thought of figures such as Sigmund Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Jacques Derrida, and of the architecture of figures such as Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco Borromini, Giuseppe Terragni, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The trope of the transformational relation; title: The rhetorical figure and the sliding of the signifier; title: Diagrams of the imaginary and symbolic; title: Scaling and dream work; title: The dream and the text; title: Diagrams of desire: the real and the gaze.