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Le Corbusier and the Occult

By: Jan Birksted

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Le Corbusier grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a city described by Karl Marx as "one unified watchmaking industry." Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier would later describe these as "my guide, my choice" and as his "time-honored ideas, ingrained and deep-rooted in the intellect, like entries from a catechism." Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J.K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives."--Publisher.

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MIT Press

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0262026481

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Perverse Memory and the Holocaust

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders

By: Jan Borowicz

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Perverse Memory and the Holocaust

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders

By: Jan Borowicz

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of phenomena difficult to remember: the pleasure derived from witnessing scenes of violence, identification with the German perpetrators of violence, the powerful fear of revenge at the hands of Jewish victims, and the adoption of the position of genocide victims. Moving away from the focus of previous psychoanalytic studies of memory on questions of mourning, melancholy, repressed memory, and loss, this volume considers the transformation of the collective identity of those who remained in the space of past Holocaust events: bystanders, who partook in the events and benefited from the extermination of the Jews. A critique of ‘perverse memory’ that hampers attempts to work through what is remembered, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences working in the fields of Holocaust studies, memory studies, psychoanalytic studies, and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003833454

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9781003833451

The Surviving Object

Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

By: Jan Abram

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The Surviving Object

Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

By: Jan Abram

In this book, Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant. Abram’s clinical-theoretical elaborations advance several of Winnicott’s key concepts. Moreover, the clinical illustrations show how her advances arise out of the transference-countertransference matrix of the analyzing situation. Chapter by chapter the reader witnesses the evolution of her proposals that not only enhance an appreciation of Winnicott’s original clinical paradigm but also demonstrate how much more there is to glean from his texts especially in the contemporary consulting room. The Surviving Object comprises 8 chapters covering themes such as: the incommunicado self; violation of the self; the paradox of communication; terror at the roots of non survival; an implicit theory of desire; the fear of WOMAN underlying misogyny; the meaning of infantile sexuality; the ‘father in the nursing mother’s mind’ as an ‘integrate’ in the nascent psyche; formlessness preceding integration; a theory of madness. The volume will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapists of all levels who are inspired by clinical psychoanalysis and the study of human nature.

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Routledge

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1000440478

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British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

By: Jan Golinski

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British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

By: Jan Golinski

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate’s role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reading the Enlightenment through the ideas, beliefs, and practices concerning the weather, Jan Golinski aims to reshape our understanding of the movement and its legacy for modern environmental thinking. With its combination of cultural history and the history of science, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment counters the claim that Enlightenment progress set humans against nature, instead revealing that intellectuals of the age drew characteristically modern conclusions about the inextricability of nature and culture.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226302067

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9780226302065

Le Corbusier and the Occult

By: Jan Birksted

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An Architecture of Ineloquence

José Lluis Sert's Carmel de la Paix : a Study in Modern Architecture and Religion

By: Jan Birksted

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An Architecture of Ineloquence

José Lluis Sert's Carmel de la Paix : a Study in Modern Architecture and Religion

By: Jan Birksted

Le Carmel de la Paix, set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert, which is virtually unknown and little visited. This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so, not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture, but also provides insights into the modernist movement and ecclesiastical architecture, the Carmelite life and its particular liturgical requirements and, reflecting on the nuns' active involvement in the design and construction process, it also explores wider issues of women in architecture.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754678016

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9780754678014

Book's by Jan Birksted

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust

The Surviving Object

The Surviving Object

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Le Corbusier and the Occult

An Architecture of Ineloquence

An Architecture of Ineloquence

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