ISBN:
9780415141925
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Body and the City : Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over the last century, psychoanalysis has transformed the ways in which we think about our relationships with others. Psychoanalytic concepts and methods, such as the unconscious and dream analysis, have greatly impacted on social, cultural and political theory. Reinterpreting the ways in which Geography has explored people's mental maps and their deepest feelings about places, The Body and the City outlines a new cartography of the subject. The author maps key coordinates of meaning, identity and power across the sites of body and city. Exploring a wide range of critical thinking, particular
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Body and The City: psychoanalysis, space and subjectivity; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction The unknown spaces of the mind; Part I: Geographies of the subject; 2. Environment, Behaviour, Mind; 3. Geographies of Human Agency; Conclusion to Part I; Part II: Spaces of the subject; Introduction to Part II geographers and psychoanalysis; 4. Myth Placed the traumas and dreams of childhood; 5. Misplaced locating the "I" in the field of the other; Conclusion to Part II psychoanalysis and space; Part III: The subject of space; Introduction to Part III
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Bodies desire abd disgust in the flesh7. In The City state of mind and body; 8. Conclusion places for the politics of the subject; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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