Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and HeideggerIn Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of text and house brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of