ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that architectures political unconscious can be explored through the site of the setting and the practice of site-writing. It proposes that when aiming to explore the unconscious of architecture it is useful to allow psychoanalytic modes of interaction interpretation and construction to inform critical strategies of engagement, precisely because they allow us to investigate moments of early history which may have been covered over. Elina Brotherus photographs are all about past time time spent loving, time spent remembering, time spent mourning, and time spent yearning. Psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche is perhaps best known for his reexamination of the points at which he argues Freud went astray. Cooke discusses how the notion of the social condenser invented and promoted by the Constructivists had to be, following Gan, actively revolutionary, and according to its subsequent development by architect and theorist Moisei Ginzburg, must work materially.
