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CRYPTIC PLACE. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2010, Pages: 56
The book explores the connection between a person's urban surroundings and subconsciousness as a major factor in defining the concepts of 'space' and 'place'. The author looks at how empty and abandoned space takes the form of a meaningful and emotionally- charged social haven through memory, attachment and interaction. From the boundaries of the home to shared public gardens and streets, space is endlessly moulded according to a shifting personal and social consciousness. Looking at Freud's notions of the 'heimlich' and 'unheimlich' takes us around a city not merely as a physical construction but as a structure inside a person's mind that could be regarded as both a personal and intimate realm, as well as shared with others in order to form an emotionally stained place of high private and public significance.
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