Freudian Fridays: 7 Sexual Chairs and Couches
We’ve often focused our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, on the symbolism of the spaces we travel, work and celebrate in to demonstrate that architecture and design are full of psychosexual implications. This isn’t limited to buildings and vehicles though, even furniture in your home can reveal a lot about, say, your relationship to your mother.
That’s the topic of this installment of our weekly pop-Freudian psychiatry session, which pinpoints the desire for a return to womb-like comforts in chair and couch design. Deep in all our subconscious minds there persists a primal fantasy of returning to the mother’s womb, perceived as a place of complete comfort and freedom from responsibility. Since this desire is socially unacceptable we seek out womb-like resting places, like these 7 Sexual Chairs and Couches. Notice that, not incidentally, they are all red like – if we remember correctly – the interior of the womb.
The Butt-Cast Chair
Salvador Dalí’s Mae West Couch
The Egg Chair (with nude model for extra rhetorical power)
The Spread Leather Chair
The Oval Egg Chair
The Leather Strap Chair
The Anatomically Detailed Vagina Couch
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