"Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate if it has a cellar, and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of psychoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then, would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives." (Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print., pp. 8)
"And so, faced with these periods of solitude, the topoanalyst starts to ask questions: Was the room a large one? Was the garret cluttered up? Was the nook warm? How was it lighted? How, too, in these fragments of space, did the human being achieve silence? How did he relish the very special silence of the various retreats of solitary daydreaming?"
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print. pp. 9)
Bibliography:
Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print.
This book was the exact thing that I have been looking for. I haven't read that far into it, but have already
can tell that this is exactly what I have been trying to say. Bachelard has poetically put into words when I have not been able to. I have a really good feeling that the more I read the better I will be able to explain what I feel about my series. I also think that I will have a better understanding myself and will have a new found appreciation for what it is that I am doing.
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