Extent: 1 audio cassette (90min), 4 digital files (604 MB )
Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'The Anus and the Enclosure of Space', given by Mark Cousins on the 10th November, 2000. The recordings consist of a Maxell 90 audio cassette tape, 2 digital preservation files (493 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (111 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 42min 11sec
Copyright: Architectural Association
Creator: Mark Cousins
Admin History: The recording is of the 3rd lecture in the series entitled 'Psyche and Space', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 2000-2001. In this lecture Mark Cousins considers Sigmund Freud's 'anal stage' noting that it has an inside/outside but is still prior to space. Cousins argues that there is no general undifferentiated readymade space, it is differentiation which opens space. He posits that, through parental prohibition, shit becomes everything that is bad. There is an association between this stage and obsessional neurosis. Cousins argues for the importance of this for architecture, regarding architecture's 'enclosed space' as a repression. This idea is developed further in the lecture of 23rd February 2001.
Custodial History: Audio cassette recording was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and retained by the AA Photo Library until 2019, when it was transferred to the AA Archives.
Aquisition: Audio cassette was transferred from the AA Photo Library to the AA Archives in 2019. Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021.
Archive Note: Catalogue description by Ke Bo Tsai and Parveen Adams
Publication Note: AA Events List, Week 6, Autumn Term, 6th - 11th November, 2000