Housing Problems : Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger / Susan Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Susan, Author.

Series:

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.) : 14 illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Goethe’s Architectonic

2 Gothic Revival and The Castle of Otranto

3 Adumbrations of the Gothic

4 Building Affinities: Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften

5 Housing Freud

6 Heidegger’s Housing Problem

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-2708-X

OCLC:

1294426276