PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE EDIFICE OF JEWISH MUSEUM IN BERLIN. THE REAL, THE SYMBOLIC AND THE IMAGINARY IN THE URBAN SPACE

• Authors: Wojciech Moćko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is the psychoanalytical interpretation of Jewish Museum building in Berlin - the example of deconstractivism in architecture, as well the urban space of Berlin and the history of Germany and the Berlin Jews as manifested in the space of the city. Starting with the notion of anamorphosis, the works by Jacąues Derrida and Peter Eisenman and using Daniel Liebenskind's building of the Jewish Museum as an example, the author of the article shows the connection between deconstructivism and the urban space of Berlin. The em-phasizes the importance of empty spaces, or spaces devoid of something, for both the city space of Berlin, and the Museum's architecture, where the empty space is the space devoid of the Berlin absentees - the Jews. The description refers to formal features of deconstructivist architecture and the features of the museum building while the interpretation is rooted in Lacanian psychoanalysis and his three orders: the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary, as well as in his concept of the mirror stage in the development of the human psyche.

Keywords

EN

psychoanalysis; deconstruction; architecture; history

• Publisher: AGH University of Science and Technology
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2012

online

2013-12-17

Contributors

author

Wojciech Moćko

Identifiers

DOI

10.7494/human.2012.11.3.25