ABSTRACT
A good definition of architecture is that of a knowledge that is partially the history of a profession, partially the evolution of a construction science, and partially a revision of certain aesthetical theories. By underlining the particular effect of the geographic environment over individuals’ emotions and behaviour, Guy E. Debord defines architecture as “psychogeography”, as the study and the manipulation of places for creating new physical environments and mental possibilities. Daniel Libeskind says that the relationship between music and architecture, architecture and psychoanalysis are based first on direct experience and then on consequent analysis. One of the most evident instances of splitting observed in architecture is that between aesthetics and function, which has caused a sort of aesthetical distortion that led to some architectural aberrations. After having used the hydraulic model, Freud focused on the archaeological metaphor for describing the unconscious mind whose traces allow understanding of the forms of a forgotten childhood life and the feelings related to it.
