Taking Sigmund Freud to the Guggenheim: the religio-erotic production of Frank Lloyd Wright. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Friedland, Roger
• Is Part Of: Innovation. Volume 21:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 33
• Page End: 101
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Institutional logics -- culture -- psychoanalysis -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- innovation -- feminist theory; Research, Industrial -- Asia -- Periodicals; Research, Industrial -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Technological innovations -- Asia -- Periodicals; Technological innovations -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Research, Industrial; Technological innovations; Asia; Pacific Area; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 658.4063
• DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2018.1513334
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1447-9338

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this essay, using both psychoanalysis and institutional logics I consider the sources of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's extraordinary new architectural forms, the Guggenheim Museum first designed in 1943–1944. In my explanation of this innovation, I focus on Wright's institutional habitations and investments as sources of his design. In this essay, I explore the ways in which the bodily meanings of the architect are materialised within this innovative architecture. To think about the relationship between these two meaningful bodies – that of the architecture and this architect – I draw on psychoanalytic and feminist theory as well as institutional logics. I consider the Guggenheim as a kind of gender performance.