Housing problems : writing and architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger
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Housing problems : writing and architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger
（Meridian : crossing aesthetics / Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, editors）
Stanford University Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-189) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house-an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish such a synthesis through the concept of Bildung, the book traces the destabilization of this symmetry between house and self in Gothic literature and in narratives surrounding the founding of psychoanalysis. The interest in architecture holds open the tension between the generalizing figures of architectonics and the singular quality of housing features. These continue to mark theoretical thinking even as they dissolve and withdraw, as in Heidegger's "house of Being."
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Abbreviations iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1 Goethe's Architectonic 000 2 Gothic Revival and The Castle of Otranto 000 3 Adumbrations of the Gothic 000 4 Building Affinities: Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften 000 5 Housing Freud 000 6 Heidegger's Housing Problem 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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