Chapter 1: Introduction
Beginning of the flâneur’s journey
Depth psychology and space
Depth psychology and identity, memory, experience
Containment
Psychogeography
Research questions
Structure
Summary
Chapter 2: Revisiting the foundations: Freud and Jung
Introduction
Topographic and archaeological model of the psyche: S. Freud.
Origins of the topographic model
Theatre of memory
Self-regulatory system
Body-map orientation
Power relations
Archetypal manifestation
Euclidean model of space
Summary: Freud
The well-sealed vessel and dwelling: C.G. Jung
Dwelling and de-structuring
Sacred geometry and maternal space
Building as a process
Summary
Chapter 3: The container as a concept of space
Introduction
Playing within boundaries: sandplay
The nature or beyond boundaries: ecopsychology
Holding and transitional spaces: Donald Winnicott
Between id and ego spaces: Paul Schilder
Manifestation of inside: Adrian Stokes
Chapters 2 and 3: Summary
Chapter 4: The container as a concept of space
Introduction
Containing space – introduction
Thought as meaning
Idealisation
Biological model
Uterine container
The general concept of containing space in depth psychology
Chapter 5: Containing space in depth psychology: moving beyond the fixed image
Introduction
Boundaries and borders
Categories of thinking
Geometrisation and perspective
Feminine space and colonisation
Self-contained and autonomous identity
Uncontained states of mind and defensiveness
Shadow: Claustrum and Panopticon
Summary
Chapter 6: Between containing spaces and new spaces: a critical comparison
Introduction
Experience: between Erlebnis and Erfahrung
Memory: Between Theatre and Mnemosyne
Meanings: between connections and structures
Emergence: between connections and patterns
Space: Between designed space and lived space
Walking as a method: between praxis and theoria.
Chapter 7: Psychogeography as a therapeutic space: features and a case study
Introduction
Psychogeotherapeutic space: features
Recording experiences
Dérive as a new reverie
Transitions and non-bounded space
Without a map, centre or destination
Aesthetical dimension: transformation of perception
Détournement
Creating situations & moments
Playfulness
Sensual and embodied
Discovering the Uncanny
The co-existing unconscious
Interconnectedness
Relationality: the encounter
The socio-political dimension: inside out/ outside in
Case study – ‘The analytic third. Working with intersubjective clinical facts’
Chapter 8: Discussions, limitations and conclusions
Introduction
Discussions and limitations
Conclusions
How can psychogeography change depth psychology?
Memory
Identity
Experience
References
Biography
Martyna Chrześcijańska is a lecturer at London Metropolitan University, School of Social Professions. She completed her PhD in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies.
