Extent: 1 audio cassette (90min), 4 digital files (921 MB )
Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'Unconscious Space and Normal Space' given by Mark Cousins on the 9th February, 2001. The recordings consist of a TDK 90 audio cassette tape, 2 digital preservation files (751 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (170 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 54min 18sec.
Copyright: Architectural Association
Creator: Mark Cousins
Admin History: The recording is of the 9th 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 again considers what is the relation between the unconscious and space? He relates that Sigmund Freud thought that the unconscious knows nothing of time or space. After discussion of Kant's views on time and space, Cousins argues that the malleability of space in the unconscious register can be seen in fantasy. He proposes that the subject is always a certain kind of space and that unconscious wishes have a spatial reality. Mark then addresses the subject as a topographical field and Reality as something which resists our unconscious wishes. Cousins then concludes the lecture with a discussion on the nature of architecture, describing 'normal' space as a force of resistance to the spaceless space of desire - which leads to the possibilities of turning this to advantage through art.
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, Spring Term, Week 5, 5th - 11th February, 2001