1st Edition

The Body and the City Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

By Steve Pile Copyright 1997
286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Geographies of the Subject; Chapter 2 Environment, Behaviour, Mind; Chapter 3 Geographies Of Human Agency; Part 2 Spaces of the Subject; Introduction2 Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4 Myth Placed; Chapter 5 Misplaced; Part 3 The Subject of Space; Introduction3 Introduction To Part III; Chapter 6 Bodies; Chapter 7 In The City; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

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. He is editor, with Michael Keith of Place and the Politics of identity and, with Nigel Thrift, of Mapping the Subject.