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Architecture and psychoanalysis. Nathaniel Kahn and the search for the father

  • This text is intended as a contribution to the study of the profound mutual relations between architecture and psychoanalysis. Architecture creates representations that conceal unconscious forms of thought; psychoanalysis helps to explain the meanings of these representations – forms of construction and forms of the psyche. The multifaceted work of psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas – his thoughts on the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, on the vitality of objects, on the creative implications of the Oedipal relationship – serves as a critical and decisive instrument for the authors’ inquiry. The issue of the >vitality of objects< as described by Bollas also concerns – but only in part – the architectural >object.< One modern form of architecture with an inordinate capacity empathy has to be Louis Kahn’s. Kahn’s youngest son , Nathaniel, lost his father when he was still a child and hardly had a chance to get to know him. After becoming an adult and an established film-maker, he managed to recover his father in two ways: by discovering him in his works, with their powerful affective impact; and by drawing from those very works of his father to enhance his own creative process in his filmic art. As it turns out, it is this very process that has allowed for an emblematically positive resolution of the Oedipal relationship.

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Author:Alessandra Chinaglia Cornoldi, Adriano Cornoldi
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 27 (No. 4, 2018), pp. 274-282.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2019/03/04
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Chinaglia-Cornoldi_A_Cornoldi_A_2018
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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