Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan - Softcover

Hendrix, John Shannon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820481718 ISBN 13: 9780820481715

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

The Author: John Shannon Hendrix earned a Ph.D. in architecture at Cornell University and teaches architectural design and art and architectural history at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of five previous books: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit (Peter Lang, 2005); Platonic Architectonics (Peter Lang, 2004); Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures (Peter Lang, 2003); The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome (2003); and History and Culture in Italy (2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0820481718
• ISBN 13: 9780820481715
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252