The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

by Pile,Steve

• ISBN13: 9780415066495
• ISBN10: 0415066492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 Cityoutlines a new cartography of the subject. Mapping key coordinates of meaning, identity and power across the sites of body and city, author Steve Pile explores a wide range of critical thinking, particularly the work of Lefebvre, Freud and Lacan to present a pathbreaking psychoanalysis of space.

Author Biography

Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and Research Associate at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The unknown spaces of the mind	p. 3
Environment, Behaviour, Mind	p. 19
Geographies of Human Agency	p. 45
Geographers and psychoanalysis	p. 81
Myth Placed: The traumas and dramas of childhood	p. 96
Misplaced: Locating the 'I' in the field of the Other	p. 121
Psychoanalysis and space	p. 145
Bodies: Desire and disgust in the flesh	p. 184
In the City: State of mind and body	p. 211
Conclusion: Places for the politics of the subject	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 257
Name index	p. 269
Subject index	p. 271
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