Tower Power: The US on a Freudian Couch after 9/11: A Socio-Psychoanalytic Study of New York Towers - Couverture souple

Kilicer, Devrim F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3898219070 ISBN 13 : 9783898219075

Editeur : ibidem-Verlag, 2008

Synopsis

Tower Power presents an engaging series of discussions in dialogue on one of the first truly interdisciplinary and historically informed studies of the American skyscraper and September 11. Devrim F. Kilicer's book offers a critical inspection of the ways in which "the center of the center," the vertical temenos of the United States, New York City, is comprehended as the place for the American Dream of material success with its overwhelming bundle of skyscrapers. The author contends that it is only by approaching the phenomenon of September 11 in the context of iconic American skyscrapers that we can truly understand the ways September 11 has been canonized and imbued with a sacred character. At the same time, her study allows September 11 to inform our understanding of the skyscraper as the essential American architectural form. She provides a socio-psychoanalytic lens through the works of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan together with social theorists Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu in understanding why New York City has been expanding vertically and what this architectonic verticality tells us about the American psyche.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Devrim F. Kilicer teaches at Ankara University, Department of American Culture and Literature in Turkey. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Ankara University, Department of American Culture and Literature. She was a Fulbright scholar at NYU American Studies Depart¬ment in 2005-2006. Her postdoctoral work focuses on ethnic studies and cultural theory. She lives in Ankara with her family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ibidem-Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3898219070
• ISBN 13: 9783898219075
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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