Lacan for Architects
Lorens Holm(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-138-85432-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jacques Lacan's impact on intellectual culture in the twentieth century has been profound, and yet his rather baroque style of exposition, his penchant for involution, has limited his impact on other discourses. This text makes his work on the nature of the 'speaking subject' available to architects, and puts it in the context of contemporary architectural thought and practice, including the issues of urbanisation and the environment that face architects today.
This book provides a concise and clearly written introduction to psychoanalytic thought for architects. It uses Lacan to develop the concepts of the spatial subject and spatial desire and is essential reading for anyone interested in the role that human nature plays in architecture and the city.
This book provides a concise and clearly written introduction to psychoanalytic thought for architects. It uses Lacan to develop the concepts of the spatial subject and spatial desire and is essential reading for anyone interested in the role that human nature plays in architecture and the city.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 s/w Abbildungen
7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-138-85432-1 (9781138854321)
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Person
Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee. He has taught architecture at the Architectural Association, University College London, and at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior publications on Lacan and architecture have appeared in the journals Perspecta (2010), Haecceity (2008 & 2007), Critical Quarterly (2000 & 2007), and Assemblage (1993). He published Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity with Routledge in 2010.
Content
1. Introduction - architecture and the discourse of humanism 2. Architectural space and the three registers of subjective experience 3. The unconscious and the field of the Other 4. The split subject and its (architectural) objects 5. The assembled self - space and the three 'clinics': the neurotic psychotic and pervert 6. Space, signifiers, and topography - the Mobius strip 7. Conclusion - architecture and the project of anti-humanism