Urban Uncanny

Lucy Huskinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Religion at Bangor University, UK. She is co-Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and author and editor of various books and articles in analytical psychology and philosophy. Her research interests are principally in the dialogue between psychoanalysis, architecture and the built environment. Her previous books include Eavesdropping (Routledge; with Terrie Waddell) and Analytical Psychology in a Changing World (Routledge; with Murray Stein).

• Evans, Going Underground: Dreams, margins, and dark spaces in Nimród Antal’s Kontroll. Meyer, Shadows Over Oxford: Memories of murder, mystery, and Morse. Zoeller, This Hated City: ‘Deadmonton’, Edmonton’s alter-ego. Legacey, Cities of the Dead: liminal places in Post-Revolutionary Paris. Moore, Ruptures in the City: Retrospective memory in Benjamin’s Paris and Koolhaas’ New York. Huskinson, Pathologizing the City: Archetypal Psychology and the built environment. Mazzocchi, The Wandering Architecture of City and Psyche. Dollard, Geographies of Loss and Ruptured Identities: The divided cities of Berlin and Nicosia. Viitanen, Nostalgic Maps: Wandering in a disappearing cityscape in Miels, Joka Ei Osannut Sanoa Ei [The Man Who Could Not Say No] (1975). Wesselman, Reconfiguring the Urban Body in DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.

‘This brilliant and timely collection explores the psychology of urban spaces: the dark corners, the sharp angles, the walkways and stairs, and the hidden streets. The city is discussed as if it were a human being: having a soul and an ego, harbouring secrets, and dealing with its shadows. Travelling through the psychological landscapes of cities and towns around the world, the essays in the collection deal with the issues that have haunted metropolitan spaces since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: crime and violence, social fragmentation, unfriendly architecture, poverty and pollution. Ultimately, the book raises the question of the place of the individual in the complex and confusing environment that is the modern city.’ – Dr. Helena Bassil-Morozow, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Glasgow Caledonian University and the author of The Trickster and the System