Walls, Rooms, and the Unconscious -- Architecture Between Space and Subjectivity

How do buildings shape us—long before we consciously reflect on them?
This session explores architecture not merely as construction or aesthetics, but as a psychological and symbolic space. Drawing on psychoanalytic thought, we will examine how architectural forms resonate with themes such as containment, exposure, memory, repetition, and desire.
From Freud’s notion of the psychic topography to later reflections on space, boundaries, and the body, architecture appears not only as a shelter for human life but as a material inscription of inner worlds. Rooms, corridors, thresholds, windows, and walls are never neutral: they organize perception, regulate affect, and silently participate in the formation of subjectivity.
We will reflect together on questions such as:

• Can buildings function as psychic containers?
• How do architectural spaces mirror defense, repression, or openness?
• What distinguishes a space that feels “inhabitable” from one that feels alienating?
• How do modern and historical architectures express unconscious cultural anxieties?

No prior knowledge of architecture or psychoanalysis is required—only curiosity and a willingness to think slowly and together.
This is an open, reflective conversation at the intersection of philosophy, architecture, and psychoanalysis, intended for those interested in how space shapes inner life.
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