THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
8:15 p.m.
Design as Dream & Self-Representation:
Philip Johnson & the Glass House of Atreus
Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D.
Faculty, NYPSI
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical School
Discussant:
Laurie Wilson, Ph.D.
Psychoanalyst
Author of Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man
and a forthcoming biography of Louise Nevelson
Philip Johnson’s masterpiece, The Glass House, is conceptualized as being structured and interpretable as a dream. Associative lines are traced from manifest design elements to overdetermined latent meanings, revealing transformative processes comparable to dream-work and unlocking doors to new insights into the Glass House and its elusive architect. In particular, surprising concordances to the Mycenaean Citadel, the mythological seat of the House of Atreus, are uncovered. Their progressive elaboration suggests that for Johnson, the design process was one of working through the highly ambivalent desire for self-representation. Ample visual material will be presented. After attending this session, participants should be able to (1) demonstrate the rationale for applying adapted dream-interpretative methodology to works of art and design, and (2) describe the transformation of unconscious mental content into manifest design elements of the Glass House.
Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
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