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词汇 psychogeography
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Definition of psychogeography in English:

psychogeography

noun ˌsʌɪkəʊdʒɪˈɒɡrəfiˌsʌɪkəʊˈdʒɒɡrəfiˌsīkōjēˈäɡrəfē
mass noun
  • 1The study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or on behaviour.

    a newly emerging discipline within geography is psychogeography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Psychogeography is concerned with the human perception of place and how it changes over time.
    • In a way, what Hartmut is trying to do is meld psychogeography with biogeography, creating in effect, psycho-biogeography.
    • Psychogeography encourages us to follow some new logic that lets us experience our landscape anew, that forces us to truly see what we'd otherwise ignore.
    • Psycho-geography, he says, "is concerned with places and the emotional states they provoke".
    • I'd like to know how much the idea of psychogeography got absorbed into disiplines like architecture and urban planning.
    1. 1.1in singular The geographical environment of a particular location, typically a city, considered with regard to its influence on the mind or on behaviour.
      the psychogeography of London
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The best pop music from Glasgow always eulogizes the psychogeography of the city.
      • It is not simply in the access to the levers of power that Washington faces the possibility of change, but in the psychogeography of the capital itself and its centre of political and social gravity.
      • Benes also has a fascinating piece on the psychogeography of the seventeenth-century Roman campagn.
      • Mapping the psychogeography of the Americas was undoubtedly one of the obsessions of 20th century art.
      • The novel's subject matter, the mythology of Jack the Ripper, the 'psychogeography' of east London, would resurface frequently in his work.

Derivatives

  • psychogeographic

  • adjectiveˌsʌɪkəʊdʒɪəˈɡrafik
    • It was his imaginative 2007 psychogeographic tale of his hometown, 'Alice In Sunderland', which really took the comic industry by storm.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For the past 20 years, Charles LaBelle has explored both the geographic and psychogeographic space of the city.
      • 'Sculpture and the Sculptural in Halifax and Vancouver' is a wonderful psychogeographic comparison of our two coastal cities.
      • His work mines similar territory to the psychogeographic fictions of Iain Sinclair.
  • psychogeographical

  • adjectiveˌsʌɪkəʊdʒɪəˈɡrafik(ə)l
    • Once, he took the train to the outskirts of the city and walked the same distance back, all part of his psychogeographical plan to map the city.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite being on a sea loch, Bowmore is the psychogeographical - as well as the administrative - centre of Islay.
      • New psycho-geographical maps of the city can define space and environments according to people's needs and emotions, rather than as the functionalist city vision of planners and architects.
      • Even William Blake might have seen this spot as some kind of psychogeographical axis mundi, where two different kinds of wildness have collided.

Origin

Early 20th century: from psycho- + geography.

Definition of psychogeography in US English:

psychogeography

nounˌsīkōjēˈäɡrəfē
  • 1The study of the influence of geographical environment on the mind or on behavior.

    a newly emerging discipline within geography is psychogeography
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'd like to know how much the idea of psychogeography got absorbed into disiplines like architecture and urban planning.
    • Psycho-geography, he says, "is concerned with places and the emotional states they provoke".
    • Psychogeography encourages us to follow some new logic that lets us experience our landscape anew, that forces us to truly see what we'd otherwise ignore.
    • Psychogeography is concerned with the human perception of place and how it changes over time.
    • In a way, what Hartmut is trying to do is meld psychogeography with biogeography, creating in effect, psycho-biogeography.
    1. 1.1 The geographical environment of a particular location, typically a city, considered with regard to its influence on the mind or on behavior.
      the psychogeography of Los Angeles
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mapping the psychogeography of the Americas was undoubtedly one of the obsessions of 20th century art.
      • Benes also has a fascinating piece on the psychogeography of the seventeenth-century Roman campagn.
      • The novel's subject matter, the mythology of Jack the Ripper, the 'psychogeography' of east London, would resurface frequently in his work.
      • The best pop music from Glasgow always eulogizes the psychogeography of the city.
      • It is not simply in the access to the levers of power that Washington faces the possibility of change, but in the psychogeography of the capital itself and its centre of political and social gravity.

Origin

Early 20th century: from psycho- + geography.

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