Extent: 1 audio cassette (90min), 4 digital files (786 MB )
Comprises audio recording of a lecture given by Mark Cousins on the 16th February, 2001 (title unknown). The recordings consist of a TDK 90 audio cassette tape, 2 digital preservation files (641 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (145 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 1hr 31secs.
Copyright: Architectural Association
Creator: Mark Cousins
Admin History: The recording is of the 10th 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 describes how the space of desire articulates itself in an infinity of space realities internalised into the subject itself. He relates how what psychology calls 'perception' is an exceptional moment in psychical organisation and occurs under special conditions. Cousins considers that you can hear something of unconscious desire when something goes wrong in discourse or in the psychoanalytic setting which produces a certain change in space. He argues that we need the normality of perception in order to tolerate the transformations that occur psychically. The space of railway stations and farewells admits taking people as the object of your desire. In concluding the lecture Mark Cousins discusses how late medieval scholasticism texts give an account of the diagram of desire and how it makes perfect sense to think in terms of rays and emanations from the subject. He argues that identification involves an interrogation - 'in the sight of whom is this space?' The blind can have the experience of being seen.
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 6, 12th - 16th February, 2001