Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan

by John Shannon Hendrix

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.

Genres: Architecture

252 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

John Shannon Hendrix est professeur d'histoire de l'art et d'architecture a la Rhode Island School of Design et a l'Université Roger Williams. Il exerce aussi au sein de l'Université de Lincoln en Grande-Bretagne. Il a rédigé de nombreux ouvrages sur l'architecture, l'esthétique, la philosophie et la psychanalyse.