'The Return of the Repressed': lecture by Mark Cousins, 22nd November, 2002

Extent: 2 digital files (794 MB)

Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'The Return of the Repressed', given by Mark Cousins on the 22nd November, 2002. The recordings consist of a digital preservation file (728 MB, .wav format) and a digital access files (66 MB .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 1hr 10min 51sec.

Copyright: Architectural Association

Creator: Mark Cousins

Admin History: The recording is of the 5th lecture in the series entitled 'The Past', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 2002-2003. In this lecture, Mark Cousins addresses repression in psychoanalysis through the expansion of Freud's argument on one of the fundamental forms of forgetting; 'the phenomenon of infantile amnesia'. In the process of linking the aforementioned to the concept of repression, Cousins also discusses three other concepts; the ego, ID and the super ego, the origin of desire and the first distinction of the conscious and unconscious mind. Linking historical knowledge to the subject of discussion, Cousins ends the lecture by identifying the re-enactment of the historian as a mechanism of primary repression.

Custodial History: Original recording (format unknown) was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and a digital copy (.wma format) has been retained on the department's servers since c2013.

Aquisition: Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021, using the digital file held by the the AA Audio Visual Department.

Archive Note: Catalogue description by Samaneh Karimelahi

Publication Note: AA Events List, Week 8, Autumn Term, 18th - 24th November, 2002