ABSTRACT
In interesting ways the world of architecture-broadly defined here as the deliberate consideration of the constructed human environment-and the world of psychoanalysisbroadly stated, the place for the study of unconscious mental life-intersect. A building derives from the human imagination, in some dialectic that is widely influenced by many contributing factors: its stated function, its relation to its neighbourhood, its functional possibilities, its artistic or design statement, its client’s wishes, the anticipated public response, and many other factors that constitute its psychic structure. Even if the building springs from the known idiom of its architect and is clearly a Le Corbusier or a Mies van der Rohe, it will still have passed through many imaginings, influenced by many factors, the totality of which will be part of the architect’s unconscious direction of the project.
