ABSTRACT
It is a question of what New Yorkers are to themselves, and to others. The New Yorker covers exemplified the psychoanalytic structures of projection and introjection. The subject organizes its relations to the world according to inside and outside, by articulating its identity with respect to space. In the Introduction, people said the aim of this argument was to construct an account of architectural space that is an elaboration of the psychoanalytic account of the subject. New Yorkers do think that New York is the biggest and best, even if they have the smarts to laugh at it. They are laughing at themselves. Every perspective is someone’s view, and the fact that someone else can move into the same position to have the same view makes it no more objective than the fact that two people who repeat the same words make meaning objective.
