Psychoanalysis of Libeskind's Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum, Berlin Architecture is not just what we see, but how we perceive a given space. Architecture triggers the senses to bring about emotions that a person could associate with a particular space. Daniel Libeskind is a modern architect with a Polish background and a contemporary thinker. He understood architecture's intangible aspects and tangible vocabulary and created a harmonic balance between the physical and the metaphysical. Libeskind used architecture to design a flow of energies in the nothingness of the spaces. The design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin was proposed as competition, for which Libeskind's entry was selected. He did not romanticize his design like other entrants, he proposed the idea of "Blitz," a zig-zag design, to show an approach towards deconstructivism infused with the phenomenological process. The architect got his inspiration from Levinasian Philosophy and Yaffa Eliach, "Horrific Tales of the Holocaust," that inspir